NR 501 Week 5 Borrowed (non-nursing) Theories Applied to the Nursing Profession

NR 501 Week 5 Borrowed (non-nursing) Theories Applied to the Nursing Profession

While the focus of this course is nursing theory, frequently the use of non-nursing or borrowed theories occurs.  Select a nursing practice area (i.e. education, executive, advance clinical practice, informatics, and health care policy); then identify a non-nursing (borrowed) theory; and apply it to the area you have selected.  Be sure to provide an example of how the non-nursing theory can be used to enhance the selected practice area.  Don’t forget to include scholarly reference(s) to support your information.

For this post, I am going to choose the specialty track that I am currently in: the educator track. A non-nursing (borrowed) theory I think that applies to my specific area is the discipline-specific theory. This theory is defined as an organized knowledge that is unique to its own specific discipline. Knowledge that is considered owned can have significance to the knowledge and discipline that is shared throughout our profession. This makes me think of things such as providing answers to questions, solutions to problems, or explaining nursing content. This theory is designed to identify the knowledge that is specific to a certain branch of learning, which in this field would be nursing. Its purpose is to provide a database that is related to nursing care and is designed to improve and promote the health and well-beings of the patients under my nursing students care (Cordon, 2013).

We as nurses must have a discipline-specific determination to provide high quality nursing care. We must establish a framework specifically designed to the nursing profession. We are legally and morally responsible for our patients, but for some reason, the meaning of “high quality care” remains unclear mainly because the models we have used to define are borrowed from other disciplines. Patient outcomes are products of our service. They are specific to our patient’s own perspective and are actions and behaviors are linked to our discipline-specific determination and knowledge (Gunther et al., 2012).

References:

Gunther, M., & Alligood, M. R. (2012). A discipline-specific determination of high quality nursing care. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 38(4), 353-359. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02201.x

Cordon, C. P. (2013). System theories: An overview of various system theories and its application in healthcare. American Journal of Systems Science, 2(1), 13-22.
DOI: 10.5923/j.ajss.20130201.03