INTRODUCTION Nurses are constantly experiencing new ethical issues as a result of the global developments and changes in health care. Guidance is often needed in making ethical decisions in nursing practice. Development of nursing into a scientific discipline mandates that practice be based on theory. Thus, nursing theory is sought to provide insight to nurses in their ethical decision-making. ...

Despite the continued use of borrowed theories in nursing, little attention has been given to determining whether theories developed in another discipline are empirically adequate descriptions, explanations, or predictions of nursing phenomena. In this article, we demonstrate how a borrowed theory can be placed within a nursing context by linking it with two different conceptual models of nursi...

Several authors have highlighted the role of intuition in expertise. In particular, a large amount of data has been collected about intuition in expert nursing, and intuition plays an important role in the influential theory of nursing expertise developed by Benner [1984. From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice. Addison-Wesley, Menlo Park, CA]. We discuss this t...

Although the construct of comfort has been analysed, diagrammed in a two-dimensional content map, and operationalized as a holistic outcome, it has not been conceptualized within the context of a broader theory for the discipline of nursing. The theoretical work presented here utilizes an intra-actional perspective to develop a theory of comfort as a positive outcome of nursing case. A model of...

Despite a high priority placed on theory-testing in nursing, there continues to be minimal research undertaken which adequately tests nursing theories. A study was planned to contribute to theory-testing in nursing by testing an aspect of Watson's (1988) theory of human care. Watson essentially believes that nursing is an intersubjective human process and places a high value on the caring relat...

Aims: To test selected propositions of the middle-range theory of nursing intellectual capital. Background: The nursing intellectual capital theory conceptualizes nursing knowledge’s influence on patient and organizational outcomes. The theory proposes nursing human capital, nurses’ knowledge, skills and experience, is related to the quality of patient care and nurse recruitment and retention o...

This is a theoretical reflection, grounded in the ideas of 'revolution theory' and its influence on the nursing profession. According to authors, many nursing schools have assimilated progress theory and embraced the claim that nursing follows the same revolutionary developmental model as the other sciences analyzed by this model. Thus, this reflection addresses the thesis that the existence of...

Theory development in nursing can be viewed to have progressed during the last 50 years in three periods: (a) the era of specifying theoretical orientations for nursing that occurred during the period of 1950s and 1960s, (b) the era of grand theorizing during the 1970s and 1980s, and (c) the era of middle-range theory development in the last two decades. The first era was characterized by the a...

INTRODUCTION Clinical placements provide opportunities for student nurses to learn experientially, thanks to clinical - practical teaching models. For this purpose this review wanted to better investigate the latest methods developed in nursing education to ameliorate the theory practice model in nursing education teaching model. METHODS The review of the literature was performed through a se...