Unit 3 Discussion – Patterns of Knowing Personal Knowing What is personal knowing; how does your personal knowing affect your personal professional development? Identify and discuss 2 professional strengths and 2 weaknesses that you have How can you apply nursing theory to address your weaknesses and further develop your strengths? Be sure to supplement your […]
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Unit 2 Discussion – Types of Theory There are a number of methods for classifying theory in nursing. These include classification based on range/scope or abstractness (metatheory, grand, middle-range, and practice) and type or purpose of the theory (descriptive, explanatory, predictive, and prescriptive). Theory Related to Practice/Scope & Purpose Identify one theory that relate to
Unit 2 Discussion – Nursing Metaparadigms Nursing Metaparadigms The metaparadigm nursing is the one that I feel works best for my current nursing practice. The text incorporates the nursing paradigm in, “care of the well, care of the sick, assisting with self-care activities, helping individuals attain their human potential, and discovering and using nature’s laws
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Create a PICOT question for a quantitative study and a PICOT question for a qualitative study that relate to your area of interest. Obtain an Evidence-Based Guideline (EBG), Standard of Practice, or best practice in nursing education that pertains to your question.  Quantitative PICOT In women with overactive bladder, how do anticholinergics compared to nonpharmacological
Unit 1: Nursing Theory & Practice Nursing theory is a framework designed to organize knowledge and explain phenomena in nursing at a more specific and concrete level. Nursing theory gives terms to provide the body of knowledge that is used to support nursing practice. Nursing theory is a set of concepts, definitions, relationships and assumptions
Recall a situation when you were asked to perform a specific intervention and/or practice idea based on authority or tradition. Describe the intervention or practice. When I first finished nursing school, I worked as an RN on a medical-surgical unit. I was fairly new on the floor and being fresh off of orientation was absolutely terrifying. I had never
Nurses’ Safety in the Hospital Environment: Evolutionary Concept Analysis Author’s Aim and Purpose The purpose of Park and Lee to do the concept analysis was to analyze the concept of nurse safety further. They noticed that nurse safety had become a more significant concern recently as the rate of work-related injury for nurses is higher
In this discussion, I will compare and summarize the requirements that are needed for the AANP and ANCC certification exams for a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). I will describe the value of having an FNP certification and how it can enhance your professional advancement in nursing. I will also discuss how applying nursing theory can
Please read the following introduction and complete the following steps for your initial discussion post: In the Chinn and Kramer (2018) reading, chapter 5, the authors discuss personal knowing and its impact on nursing theory and nursing practice. Consider professional development of nursing and apply the concepts of personal knowing on the development of nursing
Discussion Question/Prompt  [Due Wednesday] Using the readings from McEwen and Wills (2019) chapter 19: application of theory in nursing research, address the following for your initial discussion post: Complete a library search for a peer-reviewed journal article that integrates nursing theory and research. Discuss the relationship between theory and research in nursing. According to McEwen &