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: Nurses may use borrowed theories in conjunction with nursing theories to inform and guide practice (though theories should be examined for congruence with nursing ideals and situations) (Thompson, 2016). Borrowed theories have formed the basis of much nursing theory development. Johnson and Webber (2015) call this supporting theory instead of borrowed theory and explain that nurses don’t “give back” the borrowed concepts, as they are part of a “theoretical DNA” of many nursing theories (p. 79). I like this explanation because it supposes that there are no pure theories, but all have seeds of thoughts that have come before. But you have to start somewhere when developing a unique body of knowledge. 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.