Objectives and competences
Student will:
• understand the meaning of nursing theory for nursing science and discipline.
• be able to critically debate about evolution, scientific philosophical tenets and origins of theory and science development in nursing,
• appraise ways of knowing in nursing,
• be able to understand the process of constructing/developing a theory,
• be able to critically debate about differences between a theory and a model,
• be able to critique theories and conceptual models for nursing,
• be able to critique a nursing concept,
• be able to select an appropriate theory for practice and the theoretical framework in the research project,
• be able to implement theory in nursing practice,
• be able to discuss about limitations in using theory and critically analyse relationships between nursing theory, research and practice,
• be able to discuss about the importance of a nursing theories to justify the theory based practice.
Content (Syllabus outline)
• Historical evolution, philosophical tenets, paradigm and origins of theory.
• Nursing science development.
• Knowledge and knowing and fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing.
• Strategies for theory development.
• Nursing theories and nursing models.
• Critical analysis and evaluation of a nursing theory
• Concept analysis.
• Applying theory to practice.
• Linkages between theory, practice and research.
• Interpersonal relationships and nursing theories.
• Nursing theory and new nursing roles.
• Caring theories in nursing
Learning and teaching methods
Lectures (auditory and e-lectures), Seminars (auditory and e-Seminars), Tutorials
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Student
• critically evaluate the meaning of nursing theory for nursing science and discipline,
• discuss of the historical evolution, scientific philosophical tenets, and science development in nursing,
• evaluate way of knowing,
• critique the purpose and methods of constructing nursing theories and evaluate strategies used in nursing and other disciplines for theory generation and development,
• compare models and theories,
• argues the choice of the selected theory for a research project,
• for a research project analyse and evaluate selected nursing theory for their potential utilization in nursing practice, education and research using different models and criteria for theory analysis and evaluation,
• for a research project critique a selected nursing concept using the process of concept analysis,
• argues the theoretical framework of the research project.
Readings
Obvezna:
McKenna, H. Pajnkihar, M. & Murphy, F. (2018). Temelji modelov, teorij in prakse zdravstvene nege. 1. izd. Maribor: Univerzitetna založba Univerze.
Raile Alligood, M. ed. (2022 ali starejša izdaja). Nursing theorists and their work. 10th ed. St. Louis : Elsevier.
McEwen, M., & Wills, E. M. (2023 ali starejša izdaja). Theoretical basis for nursing (6th ed., str. XVI, 604). Wolters Kluwer.
Priporočena:
Chinn P.L, & Kramer M.K.,(2018). Knowledge development in nursing: theory and process. 10th ed. St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier Mosby.
Peterson, S.J. ed. (2020 ali starejša izdaja). Middle range theories : application to nursing research and practice. 5th ed. Philadelphia [etc.] : Wolters Kluwer.
McKenna, H.P. Pajnkihar, M. Murphy, F. (2014). Fundamentals of Models, Theories and Practice. Wiley, Blackwell, Oxford.
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Prerequisits
There are no specific prerequisites (attendance is checked).
