Critically analyze the philosophical underpinnings of nursing theories. 2. Critique nursing’s conceptual models, grand theories, and mid-range theories. 3. Examine the influence that nursing models and theories have upon research and practice. 4. Construct a nursing theory that represent current professional nursing practice 5. Apply nursing theory or theories to nursing research.
End of Program Outcomes
• I-Integrate nursing and related sciences into the delivery of care to clients across diverse healthcare settings. • II-Create effective interdisciplinary organizational and systems leadership in the care of clients in diverse healthcare settings. • III-Analyze quality initiatives to improve health outcomes across the continuum of care. • IV-Apply practice guidelines to improve practice and health outcomes. • VIII-Evaluate the effectiveness of clinical prevention interventions that affect individual and population-based health outcomes, perform risk assessments, and design plans or programs of care. • IX-Relate knowledge of illness and disease management to providing evidence-based care to clients, communities, and vulnerable populations in an evolving healthcare delivery system.
Topical Course Outline
1. Introduction to the Nature of Nursing Knowledge 2. Analysis, Evaluation, and Selection of a Middle Range Nursing Theory 3. Pain: A Balance Between Analgesia and Side Effects 4. Unpleasant Symptoms 5. Self-Efficacy 6. Chronic Sorrow 7. Spiritual Care in Nursing Practice (SCiNP) 8. Social Support 9. Caring 10. Interpersonal Relations 11. Attachment 12. Modeling and Role-Modeling 13. Comfort 14. Health-Related Quality of Life 15. Health Promotion 16. Deliberate Nursing Process 17. Resilience 18. Planned Change 19. The AACN Synergy Mode