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)
Organizational Change/Culture
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Content: The direct application of borrowed theories of empathy assumed that context and content applicable to the psychotherapist-patient relationship were directly transferable to the nurse-patient relationship” (p. 141). I think you can see that it makes sense that there might be differences between the psychotherapist-patient relationship and the nurse-patient relationship? Many papers have been written on how to evaluate borrowed theories for fit in nursing (Villaruel et al., 2001). “ The linkage of a nursing conceptual model and a borrowed theory must first take into consideration the logical congruence of worldviews that undergird the conceptual model and the theory” (p. 160). Remember that a worldview is someone’s (the theorist’s) perspective of the world. So though theories from non-nursing disciplines may seem to fit within the overall nursing paradigm, to be valid for nursing practice they really need to be critically examined to see if the worldviews between the selected theories are really congruent. What you really want to look at is if the borrowed theory can be applied to nursing situations (Villaruel et al., 2001). Villaruel and colleagues argued that borrowed theories “can be placed within a nursing context only if [they are] linked with a nursing frame of reference, that is, a conceptual model of nursing” (p. 160).