NR 501 Week 4: Connection Between Theory and Advanced Clinical Practice

Connection Between Theory and Advanced Clinical Practice

While the focus of this course is nursing theory, some nurses say that theory has no role in clinical practice.  What are your thoughts? Does nursing theory have a role in clinical practice? How would you use nursing theory to improve or evaluate the quality of clinical practice?  Be sure to include an example that demonstrates your thoughts.  Don’t forget to include a scholarly reference!

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Connection Between Theory and Advanced Clinical Practice SAMPLE INTRO

I firmly believe theories are crucial for the daily nursing practice and future nursing development. According to Ahtisham & Jacoline (2015) the professional control of a nurse is enhanced at the same time theoretical research is routinely applied as systematic evidence for critical thinking and decision making. Good patient quality care is demonstrated by characteristics of optimal and excellent care, approved by patients which should be based upon nursing theory which forms the structure of clinical practice. Grand nursing theories are identified by nonspecific and abstract concepts in order to deliver a broad interpretation of the major concepts in nursing. It is of paramount importance to take into account every one of the four paradigms of nursing: health, person, environment, and nursing each time a decision of developing a grand nursing theory. Grand nursing theories were the original nursing theories that set a foundation and structure for nursing practice…..

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A…, what interesting examples of the application of Henderson’s needs theory.

Henderson did not set out to create a nursing theory (Virginia Henderson, address to Sigma Theta Tau, about 1984).  She was trying to describe nursing and set up a framework for nursing education.

One very important statement you made reminded us that nursing is a very thoughtful profession.  While some theories (such as the grand theories) become so ingrained in our sense of what nursing is that we proceed with our daily caring without a conscious thought of application.  It becomes who we are as nurses.  Yet when we encounter a problem, we “activate” those theories that are within and also look for others that may be of heap.  Well said A!