Title: Nursing Theory and Practice | Ohio University
Headings: Nursing Theory and Practice: Examining the Connection
Nursing Theory and Practice: Examining the Connection
What Is Nursing Theory?
The Importance of Converting Theory into Practice
Advanced Practice Nurses and Nursing Theory
Apply Nursing Theory and Practice in Your Career
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Content: Theories emerge from making assumptions and then conducting research — such as through academic studies or hands-on clinical experience — to propose models, concepts, and beliefs based on those assumptions. Theorists might conduct their own studies or use past nursing studies and propositions to further theory development and evolve nursing practices. The Importance of Converting Theory into Practice
Professionals develop nursing theories to inform nursing practice, advance care strategies, and improve patient outcomes for a better quality of life. Nurses can apply them to all six steps of the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcome, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Nursing theories can also help nurses better understand the reasoning behind using care procedures, which outcomes those procedures might yield, and how to optimize practices for the future of care. Health care professionals can use different methodologies to turn theory into applicable practice. They may use descriptive theories, for example, to further nursing research. These theories describe the properties of a nursing phenomenon or situation. Predictive theories, by contrast, forecast the relationships between nursing properties of phenomena.