Title: Nursing theory - Wikipedia
Headings: Nursing theory
Nursing theory
Contents
Nursing theory
Importance
Borrowed and shared theories
Types
Grand nursing theories
Mid-range nursing theories
Nursing practice theories
Nursing models
Components of nursing modeling
Common concepts of nursing modeling: a metaparadigm
Notable nursing theorists and theories
See also
References
External links

Content: As nursing education developed, the need to categorize knowledge led to development of nursing theory to help nurses evaluate increasingly complex client care situations. Nursing theories give a plan for reflection in which to examine a certain direction in where the plan needs to head. As new situations are encountered, this framework provides an arrangement for management, investigation and decision-making. Nursing theories also administer a structure for communicating with other nurses and with other representatives and members of the health care team. Nursing theories assist the development of nursing in formulating beliefs, values and goals. They help to define the different particular contribution of nursing with the care of clients. Nursing theory guides research and practice. Borrowed and shared theories
Not all theories in nursing are unique nursing theories; many are borrowed or shared with other disciplines. Theories developed by Neuman, Watson, Parse, Orlando and Peplau are considered unique nursing theories.