PURPOSES OF NURSING THEORY

Nursing is feeling loved, cared, trusted and understood. Ramona Mercer

Educator

Nurse Scientist and

PURPOSES OF NURSING THEORY

For any profession to exist and continue to be of service to society, it must have both an extensive base of knowledge and the proper means to communicate. A nurse will render nursing care and service in the various disciplines of the profession utilizing the THEORIES OF NURSING.

PURPOSES OF NURSING THEORY

Nursing theories have been very useful not just solely in a single facet of nursing but also in other aspect of general information.

Development

knowledge Education Research

and expansion of

NURSING THEORY DEVELOPMENT

Nursing Theories are developed to improve the quality of care rendered by nurses to their clients.

Nursing Field:

Education Research Clinical Practice

EDUCATION

Nursing Theories were primarily used to develop and guide nursing education in universities and institutions. They were once known to be more strongly established in the field of academics rather than in clinical practice. In the 1970s and 1980s, a number of nursing programs recognized the major concepts of some nursing models, structured these

EDUCATION
With these models, they were able to come up with unique terms such as:

Program Objectives Course Objectives Course Description Clinical Performance Criteria

EDUCATION

Theoretical concepts primarily prepare students for practice as member of the professional community. The general purpose of theory development primarily is to ensure adequate and quality nursing delivery and to clarify and improve the status of the nursing as a profession.

RESEARCH
Experts constantly believed that research in nursing was inspired from different theoretical assumptions or conceptual frameworks in the past.

Through the evolution of technology, ideas, and emerging nursing issues, interpretations and perspectives are generated to provide answers to

RESEARCH
Grand Theories Only assist nursing research in an occasional manner.

Middle- Range Theories Focus on the discovery of concepts.

Critical Theory Clarify how social structures influence a wide variety of human experiences from art to social practices.

CLINICAL PRACTICE

Theories thoroughly guide critical thinking and decision-making in clinical nursing practice. Nurses will have a better understanding on the basis and nature of their work and be able to express it clearly in collaboration with other professionals. Nursing Theories strengthen professional independence by guiding the deepest and most important part of their practice. Nursing Theories are always critical in assisting nurses to facilitate questions, reflections and critical thinking in every aspect of care.

Nursing knowledge is composed of both theoretical and practical knowledge.

THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE

PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE

aims to stimulate thinking and broaden understanding of the science and practice of the Nursing discipline.

is referred to as the art of nursing.

research is linked to theory in two ways

Theory-Generating Research

Theory-Testing Research

designed to discover and describe relationships and phenomena without imposing predetermined notions on the nature of phenomena.

utilized to determine how accurate a theory describes a phenomenon.

THANK YOU!!!
Sherwin g. trojillo, r.n.
master of arts in nursing major in nursing administration