Assignment: Theory Guided Practice

Assignment: Theory Guided Practice
Assignment: Theory Guided Practice
Assignment: Theory Guided Practice
Week 1 discussion Importance of Theory in Nursing For many students enrolled in NR501, this is an initial course for nursing theory. So, let’s have a debate!!! Is nursing theory important to the nursing profession? If you believe that it is important, explain why it is useful. If you do not believe that it is useful, explain why nursing theory is not necessary to the profession? Be sure to provide an example that demonstrates your opinion and a scholarly reference (not using the required textbook or lesson) which supports your opinionPractice research, and theory are the cornerstones of the nursing
profession. The relationship of these three cornerstones are reciprocal
and cyclical. Clinical practice generates research questions and knowledge
for theory. Research guides our practice and build knowledge through theory
development. Theory guides research and improve practice. In this editorial,
I will describe the relationship among the three cornerstones of nursing—
Practice, research, and theory—and discuss the theory-practice gap as an
impediment to theory-based practice.
Effective nursing practice requires the application of knowledge, skills,
caring, and art to care for patients in an effective, efficient, and considerate
way. An important part of the knowledge used in making nursing clinical
decisions is produced by research findings. Ideally, all patient care decisions
should be based on research-evidence. Research findings are used to develop
a protocol and the protocol is followed in daily nursing practice.
In any discipline, science is the result of the relationship between the process
of inquiry (research) and the product of knowledge (theory). In addition
to guiding nursing practice, the purpose of research is to build knowledge
in a discipline through the generation of theory and or testing theory.
The relationship between research and theory is reciprocal where research
generate more knowledge and theory. Theory is integral to the research
process where it is important to use theory as a framework to provide
perspective and guidance to the research study. Theory can also be used to
guide the research process by generating and testing phenomena of interest.
The primary purpose of theory in the profession of nursing is to improve
practice by positively influence the health and quality of life of patients.
The relationship between theory and practice is reciprocal. Practice is the
basis for the development of nursing theory whereas nursing theory must be
validated in practice.
Despite the development, evolution, and study of nursing theory in the past a
few decades, the “gap” between theory and practice is a common perception
among nurses. Practicing nurses rarely use the language of nursing theory.