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Journal of Advanced Nursing
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Introduction. Chapter 1: Introduction: the case for theory in nursing. Chapter 2: Theory from practice and practice from theory. Chapter 3: Knowing in nursing and nursing knowledge. Chapter 4: Nursing theories and nursing roles. Chapter 5: Nursing theories or nursing models. Chapter 6: Nursing theories and interpersonal relationships. Chapter 7: Choosing grand and mid range theories. Chapter 8: Research based theories and theory based research. Chapter 9: Evaluating the worth of nursing theories. References.
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Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objective: to report the experience of the development of nursing knowledge from nursing theories and points of contact with the nurse’s praxis. Method: case report on the reflections on contents addressed in the discipline offered in the Graduate Program in Nursing in a federal public university. The students presented seminars approaching the main nursing theories, generating extensive discussion and correlating them with the nurse’s practice. Review and reflection on the contents addressed. Result: two themes were defined: the training of nursing undergraduate students and the development of knowledge in relation to the concepts of nursing theories; and care models and nurses’ critical reasoning about the applicability of nursing theories. Final Consideration: the reflections produced permeated the development and acquisition of knowledge and of representative meanings of healthcare practice from the assumptions and constructs of the theories.
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Journal of Advanced Nursing
The author considers that whilst nurse tutors teach theory, nurse practitioners go on nursing in the same way that they always have done. There appears to be a chasm dividing theory and practice. This paper describes an attempt to leap that chasm. The paper identifies the problem, inherent in the nursing process that creates such difficulties in its implementation. The nursing process alone does not provide an adequate framework for nursing practice. The paper then describes how the translation of theory into practice took place on a ward in Brighton General Hospital, Brighton, England. The barrier between theory and practice is highlighted, along with a description of how the problems this presents to ward staff were overcome. The author considers that the attribution of cause is a key concept in the problem-solving approach, since it generates the question — Why?— and therefore that attribution of cause must be a concept in any model of nursing that is being used to implement the nursing process. The paper provides an example of how nursing models may be adapted, at ward level, to guide everyday practice, whilst retaining the conceptual framework ofthe model. The inference of the paper is that such a process could be applied to other models resulting in a greater use of theory in everyday nursing practice.
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