NURS 345 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Practice Questions and Answers

Theory is the foundation for the art and science of.... - Answer-nursing Theory, research, and practice are bound together in a continuous..... - Answer-interactive relationship Theory based nursing practice allows you to... - Answer-design and implement nursing interventions that address individual and family responses to health problems Nursing theory - Answer-Is a conceptualization of some aspect of nursing. Describes, explains, predicts, and/or prescribes nursing care. The goal of nursing knowledge is to explain the practice of nursing as different as stemmed from psychology, which is..... - Answer-continually evolving. Theory helps explain an event by - Answer--Defining ideas or concepts -Explaining relationships among the concepts -Predicting outcomes Theory components - Answer-Phenomenon Concepts Definitions (theoretical/conceptual and operational) Assumptions Domain of nursing - Answer-An overall perspective that allows you to identify and treat your patient's paradigm of nursing - Answer-Pattern of beliefs that's used to describe the domainConceptual framework of paradigm - Answer-Help to explain our paradigm/provides a way to organize the relationships Nursing Metaparadigm - Answer-Allows nurses to understand and explain what nursing is, what nursing does, and why nurses do what they do --person, health, environment/situation, nursing First nursing theorist - Answer-Florence Nightingale Curriculum Era - Answer-courses in nursing arts, pharmacology Research Era - Answer-Nurses became involved in conducting studies Graduate education era: - Answer-More structures to nursing research, nursing theorists Theory era: s - Answer-publication of several nursing evidence-based practice Theory Utilization Era 21st century - Answer-Restored balance between research and practice for knowledge development in the discipline of nursing. ... The theory era continues with emphasis on development and use of nursing theory to produce evidence for professional practice Grand theory - Answer-Broad in scope, complex Middle range theory - Answer--limited in scope, less abstract -address specific phenomenon and reflect practice -quality of life, social support, etc Practice theory - Answer-Narrow in scope and focus Descriptive theory - Answer-describe phenomena and identify circumstances in which phenomena occurPrescriptive theory - Answer-Address nursing interventions for a phenomenon, guide practice change, and predict the consequences. ----anticipate the outcome of nursing interventions. Nightingale's Environmental Theory - Answer--Environment as the focus of nursing care -Grand theory -Believed nurses should manipulate environment (hygiene, sanitary conditions, etc.) so nature is able to restore a pt to health. Peplau's Interpersonal Theory - Answer-Phases: preorientation (gather data), orientation (defining an issue), working (therapeutic activity), resolution (termination of relationship). ---Nurse serves as resource counselor and surrogate. Middle range theory - Answer-Includes interpersonal relations between a nurse and the patient's family. Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory - Answer--Focuses on patient's self-care needs -Goal is for patient to manage his or her health problems. -Grand theory -Commonly used nursing practice -People who participate in self care, are more likely to improve their health outcomes -Continually assess why patients aren't able to do certain things and evaluate how much self care they are able to perform Leininger's Culture Care Theory - Answer--Theory of cultural care diversity and universality -Integrates patients' cultural traditions, values and beliefs into care plans -Middle-range theory -Nurses need to integrate cultural diversity into plan of careRelationship between nursing theory and nursing research - Answer--theories provide direction for nursing research -nursing theory and nursing research build the knowledge base for nursing, which is then applied to practice -theory generating or theory testing research refines the knowledge base of nursing -nurses incorporate research based interventions into theory based practice