Title: Nursing Philosophies, Models, and Theories: A Focus on the Future | Nurse Key
Headings: Nursing Philosophies, Models, and Theories
Nursing Philosophies, Models, and Theories: A Focus on the Future
Nursing Philosophies, Models, and Theories
A Focus on the Future
Definitions: Philosophy, Conceptual Model, Theory
The Danger of Not Using Nursing Knowledge
The Philosophical Value of Using Explicit Nursing Knowledge
Implementing Nursing Knowledge–Based Nursing Practice: Process and Strategies
Perspective Transformation
Strategies to Facilitate Perspective Transformation
The Scientific Value of Using Explicit Nursing Knowledge
Communicating the Scope and Substance of Nursing Practice
Documentation of Nursing Practice
Nurse-Sensitive Patient Outcomes
Measuring Satisfaction
Utility of Nursing Models and Theories Across Populations
A Vision for the Future
Five Types of Nursing Theories, Characteristics, Associated Modes of Inquiry, and Examples
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Content: 2004, p. 1). If nursing is to survive as a distinct discipline and profession, that disparity must be eliminated. Fawcett and DeSanto-Madeya (2013) explain that nursing conceptual models and theories collectively identify the distinctive boundaries of nursing within all of health care. Each nursing model and theory provides a holistic orientation that reminds nurses of the focus of the discipline—concern for the “wholeness or health of humans, recognizing that humans are in continuous interaction with their environments” ( Donaldson & Crowley, 1978, p. 119 ). Furthermore, each nursing conceptual model provides a nursing discipline–specific lens for viewing practice situations, and each theory provides details that are relevant to nursing practice. Each nursing conceptual model also provides a framework for incorporation of new knowledge. For example, the theoretical knowledge, along with the skills and attitudes, needed for competent, high quality, and safe practice—patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics ( Cronenwett, et al., 2007 )—can be linked to any nursing conceptual model. Thus, nursing conceptual models and theories help nurses explicate what they know and why they do what they do. Nursing models and