Instruction
Wk 4 Assignment - Theory-Guided Practice
Assignment Content
Use the six criteria from this week's readings from Fundamentals of Nursing Models, Theories, and Practice (Chapters 5 and 7) as a guide for this assignment. You can access these readings directly by using the Theory-Guided Practice Readings Link directly below this assignment entry.
Select a practice/clinical setting.
Use the following six criteria to select a theory appropriate for the setting you chose:
Clinical setting
Origin of the theory
Paradigms as a basis for choice
Simplicity
Patient's needs
Understandability
Explain what practice or clinical setting you chose, how the six criteria helped you choose, and why the selected theory is well suited to it.
Cite a minimum of two sources in text and include a page or slide with APA-formatted references.
Format your assignment
1,050- to 1,225-word paper
Required
Ahtisham, Y., & Sommer, J. (2015). Integrating nursing theory and process into practice: Virginia’s Henderson need theory. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 8(2), 443-450.
Kaplow, R., & Reed, K. D., (2008). The AACN synergy model for patient care: A nursing model as a force of magnetism. Nursing Economics, 26(1), 17-25.
Mensik, J. S. (2011). Development of a professional nursing framework: The journey toward nursing excellence. JONA: Journal of Nursing Administration, 41(6), 259-264.
Recommended
Bernick, L., (2004). Caring for older adults: Practice guided by Watson's caring-healing model. Nursing Science Quarterly, 17(2), 128-134.
Falk-Rafael, A. A. (2012). The primacy of relationships: A study of public health nursing practice from a critical caring perspective. Advances in Nursing Science, 35(4), 315-332.
Marrs, J.A., & Lowry, L.W., (2006). Nursing theory and practice: Connecting the dots. Nursing Science Quarterly, 19(1), 44-50.
Schim, S. M., Benkert, R., Bell, S. E., et al, (2007). Social justice: Added metaparadigm concept for urban health nursing. Public Health Nursing, 24(1), 73-80.