Title: Nursing Philosophies, Models, and Theories: A Focus on the Future | Nurse Key
Headings: Nursing Philosophies, Models, and Theories
Nursing Philosophies, Models, and Theories: A Focus on the Future
Nursing Philosophies, Models, and Theories
A Focus on the Future
Definitions: Philosophy, Conceptual Model, Theory
The Danger of Not Using Nursing Knowledge
The Philosophical Value of Using Explicit Nursing Knowledge
Implementing Nursing Knowledge–Based Nursing Practice: Process and Strategies
Perspective Transformation
Strategies to Facilitate Perspective Transformation
The Scientific Value of Using Explicit Nursing Knowledge
Communicating the Scope and Substance of Nursing Practice
Documentation of Nursing Practice
Nurse-Sensitive Patient Outcomes
Measuring Satisfaction
Utility of Nursing Models and Theories Across Populations
A Vision for the Future
Five Types of Nursing Theories, Characteristics, Associated Modes of Inquiry, and Examples
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Content: It is ironic that there are few, if any, recognizable medical conceptual models or theories. Rather, physicians use the knowledge of anatomy, biochemistry, pharmacology, physics, and physiology to guide their practice. Absent any evidence of a distinctive body of medical knowledge, medicine must be regarded as a skilled trade. Do nurses who imitate physicians prefer to be skilled tradespeople rather than professional practitioners? Another danger comes from the use of nonnursing research as documentation for evidence-based nursing practice. This danger arises from two sources: ( 1) research done by members of other disciplines who do not understand nursing conceptual models and theories that should be used to guide nursing research, and (2) research done by nurses who have abandoned nursing models and theories in favor of conceptual models and theories from other disciplines as guides for their research. The research findings from either source should not be used as the evidence on which to base nursing practice because such research is not nursing research and therefore has nothing to do with nursing practice ( Fawcett, 2000 ). The Philosophical Value of Using Explicit Nursing Knowledge
Nursing, as Rogers (1985) maintains, has “no dependent functions” (p. 381 ). She explains that “like all other professions, nursing has many collaborative functions, [but]… [e]ach profession is responsible for determining its own boundaries within the context of social need” (p. 381 ).