18 Oct What are the assumptions that color/shape your approach to care?

Nurses recognize there is more to nursing than skill performance. What nurses know – the knowledge base that underlies performance, formulates a holistic approach to health and well-being.

 

What are the assumptions that color/shape your approach to care?

 

 

 

MN502 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing

 

Unit 2 Discussion

 

Topic: Nursing Knowledge

 

It is important for nursing scholars and practitioners to apply the right types of theories to their practices in order to gain greater insight into understanding why human beings do what they do. The components of nursing knowledge, the metaparadigm, conceptual frameworks, models, and theories support the translation of nursing knowledge into real-world practice.

 

What is the difference between a model, theory, framework, and philosophy?

 

How are they related? (Discriminate between the concepts).

 

 

 

MN502 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing

 

Unit 3 Discussion

 

Topic: Nursing Model Application

 

Nursing models provide various perspectives for thinking critically and making nursing decisions.

 

Choose a nursing model and identify the concepts, values, and beliefs as they apply to contemporary nursing practice.

 

 

 

MN502 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing

 

Unit 4 Discussion

 

Topic: Cultural Model Application

 

Many different definitions exist for culturally related terms. Models such as the Campinha-Bacote model, Giger and Davidhizar model, Papadopoulos, Tilki, and Taylor model, Leininger’s Cultural Care Diversity and Universality theory and model, and the Purnell model identify the importance of understanding the patient’s culture into the nursing process.

 

What value to the role of the nurse or advanced practice nurse does a cultural model of nursing provide when used in education, practice, and administration?

 

 

 

MN502 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing

 

Unit 5 Discussion

 

Topic: Nursing and Non-Nursing Theory       

 

The future of healthcare is focused upon improving patient outcomes and patient satisfaction. Through the application of research studies and theory, evidence based practice development will lead the profession of nursing into the future whereby knowledge and skills support the practice of providing quality care.

 

Locate one nursing theory and one non-nursing theory. Describe how two practitioners can bring these separate theories together to provide meaningful patient care.

 

 

 

MN502 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing

 

Unit 6 Discussion

 

Topic: Meaning

 

It is nursing theory-based practice that differentiates nurses from other healthcare providers and that resonates so meaningfully with the persons, groups, families, and communities served by nurses. One cannot practice or live what one does not know.

 

Which theory speaks to your advanced nursing practice?

 

Explain why it speaks directly to your future practice and give specific examples of how you see it fitting into your new role.

 

 

 

MN502 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing

 

Unit 7 Discussion

 

Topic: Inform

 

Child development theories, educational theories, ethical theories all provide information that support communication and patient care. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and Lewin’s theory of planned change reinforce a relationship between nursing and other disciplines. Non-nursing and nursing theories can work together to inform and guide nursing practice, education, and research.

 

Choose a theory from one of the following disciplines of behavioral, leadership, business, education, and or technology. Describe the theory and assess its value to professional nursing practice.

 

 

 

MN502 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing

 

Unit 8 Discussion

 

Topic: C-T-E

 

Conceptual-Theory-Empirical (C-T-E) formalization is a way to analyze research by systematically testing or generating theory. The function of theory is to help us better understand the world. The C-T-E system is a whole system of nursing knowledge. Review the holarchy of nursing knowledge, note its application to real-world practice.

 

Writing in the voice of your chosen theorist, describe the Conceptual-Theory-Empirical (C-T-E) structure process you used in creating your theory?

 

 

 

MN502 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing

 

Unit 9 Discussion

 

Topic: Linked Application

 

A middle-range theory has fewer concepts and propositions than a grand theory which align with nursing practice and guide research. Conceptual models guide the direction of the propositions and empirically testable hypotheses used to create or refine middle-range theories. The progression from conceptual model to middle-range theory can be identified by reviewing King’s theory of goal attainment (middle-range theory) which is derived from King’s conceptual system (conceptual model).

 

Choose a conceptual model and middle-range theory. Explain how the concepts of the conceptual model and middle-range theory are consistent and are linked.

 

 

 

MN502 Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing

 

Unit 10 Discussion

 

Topic: Reflection

 

What do you believe about the influences of theory on nursing practice? What value do you place on using a model for practice as an advanced practice registered nurse? Has your philosophy of advanced practice nursing changed?