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Which nursing theory focuses on the patient's self-care needs?
Which nursing theory focuses on the patient's self-care needs?
What is the primary focus of Nightingale's Environmental Theory?
What is the primary focus of Nightingale's Environmental Theory?
Which theory is classified as a middle-range theory?
Which theory is classified as a middle-range theory?
What is the purpose of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Clinical Judgment Model?
What is the purpose of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Clinical Judgment Model?
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What is the relationship between nursing knowledge and theory?
What is the relationship between nursing knowledge and theory?
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Which phase of Peplau's Interpersonal Theory involves the nurse and patient working together to achieve a goal?
Which phase of Peplau's Interpersonal Theory involves the nurse and patient working together to achieve a goal?
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What is the main focus of Leininger's Culture Care Theory?
What is the main focus of Leininger's Culture Care Theory?
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What is the primary purpose of a nursing theory?
What is the primary purpose of a nursing theory?
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What is the term for the relationships of various components that make up the knowledge of a discipline?
What is the term for the relationships of various components that make up the knowledge of a discipline?
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What are the three components of a domain of nursing?
What are the three components of a domain of nursing?
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What is the term for the dynamic and responsive process of nursing theory development?
What is the term for the dynamic and responsive process of nursing theory development?
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What is the term for the definition of ideas or concepts in a nursing theory?
What is the term for the definition of ideas or concepts in a nursing theory?
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What is the primary characteristic of a grand theory?
What is the primary characteristic of a grand theory?
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Which type of theory is concerned with describing phenomena and identifying circumstances in which they occur?
Which type of theory is concerned with describing phenomena and identifying circumstances in which they occur?
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What is the primary focus of the research era in nursing theory development?
What is the primary focus of the research era in nursing theory development?
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What is the term for the process of using nursing theories to inform nursing practice?
What is the term for the process of using nursing theories to inform nursing practice?
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What is the primary goal of nursing knowledge?
What is the primary goal of nursing knowledge?
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What is the relationship between theory and nursing knowledge?
What is the relationship between theory and nursing knowledge?
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What is a characteristic of shared theories in nursing?
What is a characteristic of shared theories in nursing?
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What is the primary focus of prescriptive theories in nursing?
What is the primary focus of prescriptive theories in nursing?
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What is the role of the nursing process in theory-based nursing practice?
What is the role of the nursing process in theory-based nursing practice?
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What is the primary goal of theoretical knowledge in nursing science and practice?
What is the primary goal of theoretical knowledge in nursing science and practice?
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What is experiential knowledge in nursing based on?
What is experiential knowledge in nursing based on?
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What do nurses consider when determining whether a theory can be used in practice?
What do nurses consider when determining whether a theory can be used in practice?
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What is the outcome of both theory-generating and theory-testing research in nursing?
What is the outcome of both theory-generating and theory-testing research in nursing?
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How do nurses incorporate research into practice?
How do nurses incorporate research into practice?
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What type of research uses logic to explore relationships among phenomena?
What type of research uses logic to explore relationships among phenomena?
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What is the relationship between theory and research in nursing?
What is the relationship between theory and research in nursing?
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What is the ultimate goal of integrating theory, knowledge, and research in nursing?
What is the ultimate goal of integrating theory, knowledge, and research in nursing?
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Study Notes
Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice
- Theory serves as the foundation for nursing care, and it is bound together with research and practice in a continuous interactive relationship.
- Theory helps explain an event by defining ideas or concepts, explaining relationships among the concepts, and predicting outcomes.
Components of a Theory
- Phenomenon
- Concepts
- Definitions
- Theoretical/conceptual
- Operational
- Assumptions
Domain of Nursing
- Domain
- Paradigm
- Conceptual framework
- Nursing metaparadigm
- Person
- Health
- Environment/Situation
Evolution of Nursing Theory
- First nursing theorist: Florence Nightingale
- Stages of evolution:
- Curriculum era: 1900s-1940s
- Research era: 1950s-1970s
- Graduate education era: 1950s-1970s
- Theory era: 1980s-1990s
- Theory utilization era: 2000s-today
Types of Theory
- Grand: Abstract, broad in scope, complex
- Middle-range: Limited in scope and less abstract
- Practice: Narrow in scope and focus
- Descriptive: Describe phenomena and identify circumstances in which phenomena occur
- Prescriptive: Address nursing interventions for a phenomenon, guide practice change, and predict the consequences
Theory-Based Nursing Practice
- Nursing knowledge is derived from basic and nursing sciences, experience, aesthetics, nurses' attitudes, and standards of practice
- Goal of nursing knowledge: To explain the practice of nursing as different and distinct from the practice of medicine, psychology, and other health care disciplines
- Theory generates nursing knowledge for use in practice, thus supporting EBP
Shared Theories
- Explain a phenomenon specific to the discipline that developed the theory
- Several nursing theories are based on systems theory, which includes the nursing process as a system
- Nursing process components:
- Input
- Output
- Feedback
- Content
Select Nursing Theories
- Nightingale's Environmental Theory
- Focus on environment as the focus of nursing care
- Grand theory
- Peplau's Interpersonal Theory
- Focus on interpersonal relations between nurse, patient, and patient's family
- Phases: preorientation, orientation, working, resolution
- Middle-range theory
- Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory
- Focus on patient's self-care needs
- Continually assess how much self-care a patient is able to perform
- Grand theory
- Leininger's Culture Care Theory
- Theory of cultural care diversity and universality
- Integrates patients' cultural traditions, values, and beliefs into care plans
- Middle-range theory
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing Clinical Judgment Model
- Developed to help guide nursing educators in evaluating nursing students' abilities to make clinical judgments
- Model with multiple layers that help explain the cognitive process nurses use to make clinical judgments
- Students can use this model to learn how to think like a nurse and make safe clinical decisions
Links Among Theory and Knowledge Development and Research in Nursing
- Nursing knowledge is theoretical and experiential
- Theoretical knowledge: goals are to stimulate thinking and create a broad understanding of nursing science and practice
- Experiential knowledge: based on nurses' experiences in providing care to patients
- Nurses consider findings from theory-based research to determine whether the theory can be used in practice
- Research is used to develop new theories and refine the knowledge base of nursing
- Theory-generating research: uses logic to explore relationships among phenomena
- Theory-testing research: determines how accurately a theory describes a nursing phenomenon
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This quiz covers the theoretical foundations of nursing practice, including the relationship between theory, research, and practice. It's based on the 11th edition of the Fundamentals of Nursing textbook.