Title: Nursing theory: its importance to practice
Headings: Nursing theory: its importance to practice
Nursing theory: its importance to practice
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Content: Conclusion By giving nurses a sense of identity, nursing theory can help patients, managers and other healthcare professionals to recognise the unique contribution that nurses make to the healthcare service ( Draper 1990 ). Providing a definition of nursing theory also helps nurses to understand their purpose and role in the healthcare setting. Nursing Standard . 17, 46, 33-37. doi: 10.7748/ns2003.07.17.46.33.c3425
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Keywords : Education: theory and philosophy - Models and theories - Nursing: models