Title: The Importance of Nursing Theory in Advanced Practice Nurses – Barbra Dozier's Blog
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Barbra Dozier's Blog
The Importance of Nursing Theory in Advanced Practice Nurses
The Importance of Nursing Theory in Advanced Practice Nurses
Importance of Nursing Theory
Health Promotion Model Summary
Pender’s Theory Importance to Master Program
Application of the theory in Nursing Practice
Conclusion
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Content: This part explores the importance of nursing theories in general. When it comes to nursing education, the nursing theories should be highly incorporated. Through this incorporation, nurses learn the concepts of care, techniques, and strategies to use, diagnosing diseases and coming up with treatment plans among many other things. For example, through Pender’s nursing theory, nurses get to understand that health is not the absence of the diseases. In this case, nurses get to learn and use the said assumptions. For example, Pender argued that individuals seek to regulate their own behaviors. In this case, nurses learn their responsibility in promoting health. They also get to learn the patient’s responsibility in their health and how they can educate the patients towards the same. Through the nursing theories, the nurses get in a position to identify the patient’s needs, enhance effective patient-nurse communication, effectively assess the condition of the patients and effectively design techniques to assist patients. According to Smith & Parker (2015), nurses can use theories to generate new knowledge concerning various issues.