Title: 
Headings: 
Theory
 
guided
 
practice
 
in
 
nursing

Practice
 


Content: Effective
 
nursing
 
practice
 
requires
 
the
 
application
 
of
 
knowledge,
 
skills,
 
caring,
 
and
 
art
 
to
 
care
 
for
 
patients
 
in
 
an
 
effective,
 
efficient,
 
and
 
considerate
 
way. An
 
important
 
part
 
of
 
the
 
knowledge
 
used
 
in
 
making
 
nursing
 
clinical
 
decisions
 
is
 
produced
 
by
 
research
 
findings. Ideally,
 
all
 
patient
 
care
 
decisions
 
should
 
be
 
based
 
on
 
research-evidence. Research
 
findings
 
are
 
used
 
to
 
develop
 
a
 
protocol
 
and
 
the
 
protocol
 
is
 
followed
 
in
 
daily
 
nursing
 
practice. In
 
any
 
discipline,
 
science
 
is
 
the
 
result
 
of
 
the
 
relationship
 
between
 
the
 
process
 
of
 
inquiry
 
(research)
 
and
 
the
 
product
 
of
 
knowledge
 
(theory). In
 
addition
 
to
 
guiding
 
nursing
 
practice,
 
the
 
purpose
 
of
 
research
 
is
 
to
 
build
 
knowledge
 
in
 
a
 
discipline
 
through
 
the
 
generation
 
of
 
theory
 
and
 
or
 
testing
 
theory. The
 
relationship
 
between
 
research
 
and
 
theory
 
is
 
reciprocal
 
where
 
research
 
generate
 
more
 
knowledge
 
and
 
theory. Theory
 
is
 
integral
 
to
 
the
 
research
 
process
 
where
 
it
 
is
 
important
 
to
 
use
 
theory
 
as
 
a
 
framework
 
to
 
provide
 
perspective
 
and
 
guidance
 
to
 
the
 
research
 
study. Theory
 
can
 
also
 
be
 
used
 
to
 
guide
 
the
 
research
 
process
 
by
 
generating
 
and
 
testing
 
phenomena
 
of
 
interest. The
 
primary
 
purpose
 
of
 
theory
 
in
 
the
 
profession
 
of
 
nursing
 
is
 
to
 
improve
 
practice
 
by
 
positively
 
influence
 
the
 
health
 
and
 
quality
 
of
 
life
 
of
 
patients.