- Importance of organic chemistry
- Advantages of Secondary Research
- Definition of Nursing Theory & Importance of Nursing Theories
EVOLUTION OF NURSING THEORIES & APPLICATION
- The history of professional nursing begins with Florence nightingale.
- Later in last century nursing began with a strong emphasis on practice.
- Following that came the curriculum era which addressed the questions about what the nursing students should study in order to achieve the required standard of nursing.
- As more and more nurses began to pursue higher degrees in nursing, there emerged the research era.
- Later graduate education and masters education was given much importance.
- The development of the theory era was a natural outgrowth of the research era.
- With an increased number of researches it became obvious that the research without theory produced isolated information; however research and theory produced the nursing sciences.
- Within the contemporary phase there is an emphasis on theory use and theory based nursing practice and lead to the continued development of the theories.
