PURPOSES OF NURSING THEORY Flashcards
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- Ramona Mercer
Nurse Scientist & Educator
GENERAL PURPOSES OF THEORY DEVELOPMENT:
To ensure inadequate and quality nursing care.
TRUE OR FALSE
FALSE
Note: It should be adequate
GENERAL PURPOSES OF THEORY DEVELOPMENT:
To clarify and improve the status of Nursing as a profession.
TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE
This is inherent in the different nursing fields - education, research, and practice.
Theory Development
- To categorize knowledge & analyze client care situations to communicate in coherent and meaningful ways.
- Provides a framework for thought in which to examine situations, which provides a structure for organization, analysis, and decision-making.
Education
- For the continued development and evolution of the discipline of nursing.
- Nursing needs to continue expanding its knowledge base to respond proactively to changes in societal needs.
Education
__________ were primarily used to develop and guide nursing education in universities and institutions.
Nursing Theories
Education were once known to be more strongly established in the field of academics rather than ______________.
clinical practice
In the _______ and _______, a number of nursing programs recognized the major concepts of some nursing models, structured these concepts into a conceptual framework, and built the complete curriculum around that framework (Kozier, 2008)
1970s and 1980s
________________ primarily prepares students for practice as members of the professional community.
Theoretical concepts
Education was able to come up with unique terms such as:
- Program objectives
- Course objectives
- Course description
- Clinical Performance Criteria
Under Research,
Experts constantly believed that ____________ was inspired by different theoretical assumptions or conceptual frameworks in the past.
research in nursing
Under Research,
Through the evolution of ______, _______, and _______ issues interpretations and perspectives are generated to provide answers to questions encountered in practice.
technology, ideas, and emerging nursing
It is the systematic application of formalized methods of generating valid and dependable information about the phenomena of concern to the discipline of nursing.
Research
It is developed that in turn used to either test existing theories or generate new theories.
Knowledge for nursing practice
Theories thoroughly guide critical thinking and decision-making in __________________.
clinical nursing practice
____________ strengthen professional independence by guiding the deepest and most important part of their practice.
Nursing Theories
Provide a structure for communicating with other nurses & with other members of the health care team.
Clinical Practice
- Assist in clarifying beliefs, values, and goals and help to define the unique contribution of nursing in the care of clients.
- It is a tool for effective nursing practice.
Clinical Practice
In ______________,
- Nurses gain new insights into patient care, open new options & stimulate innovative interventions.
- Enhances & strengthen the nurse’s role & helps one to actually think nursing.
- To help guide their practice or choose a more eclectic approach & adopt ideas from several theories.
CLINICAL Practice
It provides the raw material for the ideas that are systematically developed & organized in the form of _______.
A. Nursing theory
B. Nursing research
C. Nursing practice
A. Nursing theory
The ideas proposed by nursing theory must be tested and validated through _________.
A. Nursing theory
B. Nursing research
C. Nursing practice
B. Nursing research
New knowledge that results from nursing research is use to transform & inform ________.
A. Nursing theory
B. Nursing research
C. Nursing practice
C. Nursing practice
____________ generates questions that serve as the basis for nursing research.
A. Nursing theory
B. Nursing research
C. Nursing practice
C. Nursing practice
____________ influences the development of nursing theory that in turn transforms nursing practice.
A. Nursing theory
B. Nursing research
C. Nursing practice
B. Nursing research
FILL IN THE BLANKS:
“Practice without theory, like _____ without _______, is blind; theory without practice, like ______ without _________, is empty”.
map, route
route, map
These 3 parts of nursing are interdependent to each other. What are these?
Nursing Theory ⟺ Nursing Research ⟺ Nursing Practice
According to _____, Theoretical knowledge includes and reflects on the basic values, guiding principles, elements and phases of conception of nursing.
(Meleis, 1997)
It aims to stimulate thinking and broaden understanding of the science and practice of the Nursing discipline.
Theoretical knowledge
It is the art of nursing.
Practical knowledge
Research is linked to theory in 2 ways by _______ and _________.
generating and testing
It is designed to discover and describe relationships and phenomena without imposing predetermined notions on the nature of the phenomena.
Theory-generating research
Utilized to determined how accurate a theory describes a phenomenon.
Theory-testing research
The end result of theory-generating and theory-testing research is to _______________.
enhance nursing knowledge
