Title: Borrowed Theory in Nursing Theory Development - Nursing Education Expert
Headings: Nursing Education Expert
Nursing Education Expert
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)
Organizational Change/Culture
Leadership
How to Cite this Blogpost in 7th ed. APA*:
References*
Products from Amazon.com
Like this:

Content: Are the theory’s assumptions, concepts/constructs, propositions congruent with the philosophy of nursing? Borrowed Theories and Supporting Theoretical Frameworks Used in Nursing
Multiple Borrowed Theories are like Multiple Perspectives of the World
Photo by João Silas on Unsplash
The link between nursing theories and supporting or borrowed theories is sometimes obvious because you can see the shared concepts explicit in both theories (e.g., Selye’s General Adaptation Theory/Stress and Adaptation Theory with Roy’s Adaption Model) and sometimes not as explicit (Kohut’s Model of Self-Psychology with Theory of Chronic Sorrow). There are many theories from which nursing has borrowed ideas for use in nursing practice. I organized the theories into categories, but realize that multiple categories may apply to each theory. Commonly borrowed theories include: General Systems Theory
Von Bertalanffy’s General Systems Theory/Open Systems Theory (systems theories are “helpful in understanding organic systems, or systems involving living beings” [Cordon, 2013, p. 21]). Senge’s The Learning Organization (leadership, systems thinking)
Family Systems Theory
Stress, Adaptation, and Coping Theories
Lazarus and Folkman’s Stress and Coping Model
Selye’s General Adaptation Theory
Developmental Theories
Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory
Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
Freud’s Psychosexual Development Theory
Freud’s Theory of Personality
Bowlby’s Attachment Theory
Kohlberg’s Moral Development
Kohut’s Model of Self-Psychology
Motivation Theories
Maslow’s Theory of Human Motivation and Hierarchy of Basic Human Needs
Hertzberg’s Two-Factor Theory of Motivation
Expectancy Theory
Physiologic Frameworks
Germ theory
Infectious disease transmission
Immunity theories
Homeostasis
Gate control theory (pain transmission and management)
Genetic principles and theories
Chaos and Complexity theories
Educational and Learning Theories are the basis for many theories and frameworks about learning theory in education. They can be appli