Discuss the Value of Nursing Theory to the Profession of Nursing. Identify one Way in Which You Could Use Nursing Theory to Improve Your Practice

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Discuss the value of nursing theory to the profession of nursing. Identify one way in which you could use nursing theory to improve your practice (present or future role). Provide a reference for your response.

With the growth of nursing as an academic discipline, broad theoretical frameworks were developed to discover the essence of being a nurse.These strategies of nursing concept were intended to provide an increased knowledge in caring for a patient.Nursing theories, therefore, are the basis of nursing practice.They serve as a guide to assessment, intervention, and evaluation to care as well as establish a protocol of measuring efficient nursing services. (Evidence,n.d.)By giving a sense of identity, these theories encourage nurses to use critical thinking transforming today's healthcare.

Historically, generation of nursing theories were misused and failed to bridge the gap and has caused irrelevant and confuse nursing practices.Fast forward in 2011 Health Service Management Center reported and outlined the nursing professions as hard work and suggested it is time to redesign and develop effective care models (Gooddenough,2012), Florence Nightingale’s Environmental theory, however, is still applicable today and is the basis for providing basic environmental hygiene in all healthcare levels.Her detailed environmental principles of ventilation, light, noise, cleanliness of rooms/walls, bed, personal cleanliness, warming and nutrition(Nightingale,1860 )serves as a parameter and is still relevant in today’s time.

Nursing theories like those of Florence Nightingale to an advanced practice nurse in a public health setting is significant because even after a century of her death, her primary influence on the practice characterizes the modern nursing of today; focusing a holistic approach to the

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