NSG620 Theory in Advanced Practice

***Access your book via the DART link in your class under the Getting Started Section.

Butts, J. B., & Rich, K. L. (2022). Philosophies and theories for Advanced Nursing Practice (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Read:

• Chapter 25:  Theory Testing and Theory Evaluation

The presentations above are required readings to accompany the textbook readings.

***Access your book via the DART link in your class under the Getting Started Section.

Butts, J. B., & Rich, K. L. (2022). Philosophies and theories for Advanced Nursing Practice (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Read:

• Chapter 26:  Using Theory in Evidence-Based Advanced Nursology Practice

The presentations above are required readings to accompany the textbook readings.

Websites

•  Determinants of Health - https://www.who.int/health-topics/social-determinants-of-health#tab=tab_1

• Social Determinants of Health - https://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/index.htm

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation- County Health Rankings - https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/explore-health-rankings

• A Nurse Practitioner’s Perspective on Theory in Practice - https://nursology.net/2020/09/29/a-nurse-practitioners-perspectives-on-theory-in-practice/

• The Importance of Nursing Theory in Advanced Practice Nurses - https://barbradozier.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/the-importance-of-nursing-theory-in-advanced-practice-nurses/

• Nursing Theories and Theorists-- https://nurseslabs.com/nursing-theories/

• American Association of Nurse Practitioners-- https://www.aanp.org/membership?gclid=CjwKCAjwv4SaBhBPEiwA9YzZvEIYRZ7n6DEO0uZ2GJg5wstNHZpGjuoIwC0LeZErTHK4qVE53m6uwhoCLKsQAvD_BwE

• National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists-- https://nacns.org/

• American College of Nurse-Midwives-- https://www.midwife.org/

• American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology--- https://www.aana.com/

• National League for Nursing [Nurse Educator]-- https://www.nln.org/

• Theory-Based Approaches to Evaluation: Concepts and Practices -- https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/audit-evaluation/evaluation-government-canada/theory-based-approaches-evaluation-concepts-practices.html 

Videos

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• Community Health Nursing: Nursing Theories--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d94pC8d5ndk 
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• What’s the difference between a scientific law and a theory? - Matt Anticole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyN2RhbhiEU
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• What is Theory?--- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLoUCU7sFLA 
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• What is Theory Testing? —[Theory Evaluation] -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AnaLa8pisk 
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• Theory Testing and Building-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPmgYVlxOJE 

Articles

• The current status of theory evaluation in nursing.  Eun-Ok Im .  PMID: 26016592 DOI: 10.1111/jan.12698--- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26016592/

• Theory-Based Advanced Nursing Practice: A Practice Update on the Application of Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory.  Jeffrey Yuk Chiu Yip, MNSc, RN (HK)1. SAGE Open Nurs. 2021 Jan-Dec; 7: 23779608211011993. Published online 2021 Apr 20. doi: 10.1177/23779608211011993. PMCID: PMC8060740. PMID: 33959682

• The theory evaluation scale: An epistemological tool for analyzing social work theories.  Rigaud Joseph & Mark J. Macgowan.  Pages 269-281 | Received 01 Nov 2017, Accepted 23 Sep 2018, Published online: 08 Oct 2018.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02615479.2018.1529745?journalCode=cswe20

Historical Articles

• Int J Nurs Stud . 1997 Feb;34(1):76-83. doi: 10.1016/s0020-7489(96)00024-7.  The evaluation of nursing theory: a method for our madness. S L Dudley-Brown  1
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  • PMID: 9055124
  • DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7489(96)00024-7

• Critical theory as a framework for academic nursing practice.
  • Swartz MK. J Nurs Educ. 2014 May 1;53(5):271-6. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20140408-01. Epub 2014 Apr 8. PMID: 24708051

• Testing of nursing theory: critique and philosophical expansion.
  • Silva MC, Sorrell JM. ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 1992 Jun;14(4):12-23. doi: 10.1097/00012272-199206000-00004. PMID: 1605585 Review.

• Philosophical and theoretical content of the nursing discipline in academic education: A critical interpretive synthesis.
  • Rega ML, Telaretti F, Alvaro R, Kangasniemi M. Nurse Educ Today. 2017 Oct;57:74-81. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2017.07.001. Epub 2017 Jul 13. PMID: 28750250 Review.

• Developing and testing a middle-range theory of the well-being supportive physical environment of home-dwelling elderly.
  • Elo S, Kääriäinen M, Isola A, Kyngäs H. ScientificWorldJournal. 2013 May 13;2013:945635. doi: 10.1155/2013/945635. Print 2013. PMID: 23766727 Free PMC article.