Dickoff & James assert that theory comes from practice for practice. This paper will explore the reality of this statement in nursing today. The nature of nursing knowledge from an historical perspective facilitates an understanding of where nursing theory development is today. The purpose of theory is debated and the motivation for its development considered. Practice theory, theory which is d...

With the current movement of anesthesia education into graduate programs, changes in curriculum are inevitable. These changes will include advanced nursing theory. How the issues of nursing theory apply to the practice of nurse anesthesia are examined. Applications of Betty Neuman's systems theory are used in specific examples of the anesthesia role. The profession of nurse anesthesia may benef...

a survey on the theory and practice gap in mashhad nursing and midwifery faculty     jahani shoorab n [1] *, golmakani n [2] , mazluom sr [3] , mirzakhani k [4] , azhari s [5] navaiyan a [6]     received: 24may, 2011 accepted: 12september, 2011     abstract   background & aims : according to who, annually, 515,000,000 maternal mortality (mmr) occurs in the world. however, the majority of them a...

Dorothea Orem, RN, MSN, Ed, FAAN, began to develop foundations for the selfcare deficit theory of nursing in the 1950s, when the curriculums of most nursing education programs were based on conceptual models from medicine, psychology, and sociology. Thus, Orem is a pioneer in the development of distinctive nursing knowledge. The development of the self-care deficit theory of nursing has been de...

Is there anything about the well-developed body of theory around caring in nursing that leads towards improved measurement and management? Nursing is primarily practical in character; remarkably, the theory of caring in nursing remains to this day disconnected from practice in fundamental ways. Habermas' developmental theory of moral consciousness, rooted in the work of Kohlberg, supports a the...

Objective This paper explores the Constructivist Grounded Theory research methodology informed by Charmaz (2006). Comparisons are drawn between the Constructivist Grounded Theory position and the ethical principles of Deontology, Utilitarian, Virtue ethics and fidelity that inform contemporary mental health nursing practice. Conclusions are made between the relative fit of the interpretivist na...

● Compare and contrast nursing and non-nursing health promotion theories. ● Examine health promotion theories for consistency with accepted health promotion priorities and values. ● Articulate how health promotion theories move the profession forward. ● Discuss strengths and limitations associated with each health promotion theory or model. ● Describe the difference between a model and a theory...