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Running head: THEORETICAL NURSING Theoretical Nursing Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Title Date THEORETICAL NURSING Theory evaluation has proved to be an important component in developing knowledge in the field of nursing, this has become an element that is critical in developing the discipline of nursing, and it refers to a process of examining theories systematically using a flexible criterion that includes the theory’s origin, its meaning, utility, logic, adequacy, possibility of test and generalization. In the process of providing care for human beings in an organized and orderly manner, nurses have been involved in theorizing (Meleis, 2011). Clinical practice was guided by concepts of comfort, care, health, healing, and protection even before they were put together to come up with nursing theories. Theoretical nursing aims at guiding nurses so that they are enabled to maximize outcomes form the process of nursing throughout their practice. In a clinical setting, it is critical that nurses have something to formulate so that they create outcomes with definite results, the main function of theoretical nursing usually is to provide guidance for research, this then leads to the provision of new possibilities for ensuring understanding of other disciplines surrounding nursing (Meleis, 2011). In theory evaluation, the purpose of the theory is important, this includes the reason of formulation of the theory and the situations and contexts that the theory can be ...
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