Title: Borrowed Theory in Nursing Theory Development - Nursing Education Expert
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Borrowed Theory in Nursing Theory Development
Discipline-Specific Theory
Borrowed Theory in Nursing
How to Decide if a Borrowed Theory “Fits” the Nursing Profession
Borrowed Theories and Supporting Theoretical Frameworks Used in Nursing
General Systems Theory
Stress, Adaptation, and Coping Theories
Developmental Theories
Motivation Theories
Physiologic Frameworks
Planning and Evaluation Models (Logic Models)
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Content: Nightingale’s Notes is considered a nursing model that, while it speaks about the four nursing metaparadigm concepts, focused on environmental rules for nursing practice. It did not cover all possible phenomena that nurses manage. Nurses, therefore, borrowed theories developed by other disciplines to inform and influence nursing practice. The internal framework (e.g., definitions, concepts, propositions) was then used to form the foundation and/or influence the development of nursing-specific theories. Even though there are many nursing theories that could be used to guide research studies, many nursing studies use non-nursing theories. A review of nursing dissertations found that over 45% of nursing dissertations used non-nursing theories as the frameworks for their work (Spear, 2007). However, “knowledge developed within other disciplines could fail to address the problems that nurses confront and that are important to their work” (Rodgers, 2018, p. 28). Nurses need to be encouraged to use nursing theories to frame their research studies if “nurses are to “have an understanding of their discipline” (p. 28). Borrowing theory from other disciplines is not unique to the nursing profession (Masters, 2015; Rodgers, 2018;