Why Is Theory Important to Nursing
These questions stimulate the development of empriric knowledge and organizes a framework for deliberately examining knowledge
What is this and How does It Work
This may now be exlicitly stated but it should be identifiable.
What is the purpose of a theory.
Why was this theory formulated? Description, explanation, and prediction of phenomenon.
What is the description of the purpose of a theory?
Semantic and structural consistency
How clear is the theory?
Who is Roy?
The primary purpose of nursing theory
What is improving practice and therefore health and quality of life
This part of a theory gives overall form to the conceptual relationships within it and emerges from the relationships of the theory.
What is structure of a theory?
How much meaning needs to be inferred? Which concepts are explicit? Which are implied?
What is the description of the definitions of a theory?
Is this theory specific to nursing? If not, who else could use it? Why? Is the purpose justifiably a nursing purpose?
How general is the theory?
Self Care Deficit
Who is Orem?
Helps us to share and communicate
What is the language of a theory
These may vary with regard to precision and completeness, but their conceptual meaning should be identifiable and consistent in a theory.
What are definitions?
What underlies the theory? What are the individual, nurse, society, environment, and health assumed to be like?
What is the description of the assumptions of a theory?
Will use of the theory help or hinder nursing in anyway? Will application of this theory resolve any important issues in nursing? Will it resolve any problems?Is the theory futuristic and forward-looking?
How important is the theory?
The theory of Nursing as Caring
Who is Boykin and Schoenhofer
We do this (2 things),because it is important to link our theories to practice.
What is analysis and critical reflection
If a theory is tentative, these form the underlying taken-for-granted truths on which the theory was developed, thus leaving open possible theoretic interpretations.
What are assumptions?
How are overall and individual ideas organized? If outlined, what would the theory look like? Do relationships expand concepts into larger wholes or vice versa? Do they link concepts in a linear fashion?
What is the description of the structure of a theory?
Are some concepts differentiated into subconcepts and others not? Can concepts be combined without losing theoretic meaning?Is the theory complex in some areas and not in others?
How simple is the theory?
The Caritas of Caring
Who is Watson?
"a creative and rigorous structuring of ideas that projects a tentative, purposeful, and systematic view of phenomena"
What is nursing theory defined by chinn and kramer (2011)
If a theory represents a structuring of ideas, the ideas will be in the form of _______ that are expressed through language.
What are concepts?
Do these create meaning and understanding? Do they do this by describing, explaining? Predicting? What mix of each?
What is the description of the relationships in a theory?
• Do the _______s provided for the concepts adequately reflect their meanings? • Is a very narrow _____ offered for a broad concept? A broad meaning for a narrow concept?
What is definition.
Health Promotion Model
Who is Pender