- Define relationships among the variables of a given field of inquiry.
- Guide research, practice and communication
- Allow the prediction of the consequences of care
- Allow the prediction of a range of patient responses
Value of Theory
- Enhances understanding and explanation for events.
- Influence our behavior.
- Makes to think differently about a problem or a situation.
- Helps to try new approaches or altering behavior.
- We can gain a new perspective of events.
- basis for challenge of its speculative tenets or propositions.
- challenges subsequent discovery of new ideas or knowledge that might explain and predict events not yet understood.
In practice
- Assist nurses to describe, explain and predict everyday experiences.
- Serve to guide assessment, intervention and evaluation of nursing care.
- Provide a rationale for collecting reliable and valid data about the health status of clients.
- Helps to establish criteria to measure the quality of nursing care.
- Help build a common nursing terminology.
- Enhance autonomy of nursing by defining its own independent functions.
In education
- Provide a general focus for curriculum design.
- Guide curricular decision making.
In research
- Offer a framework for generating knowledge and new ideas.
- Assist in discovering knowledge gaps in specific field or study.
- Offer a systematic approach to identify question for study, select variables, interpret findings and validate nursing interventions.
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