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This book offers the perspective that nursing theory
is essentially connected with nursing practice, research, education, and development. Nursing theories, regardless of complexity or abstraction, reflect
nursing and are used by nurses to frame their thinking, action, and being in the world. As guides for
nursing endeavors, nursing theories are practical in
nature and facilitate communication with those being nursed as well as with colleagues, students, and
persons practicing in related health and illness services. At the same time, all aspects of nursing are essential for developing and evolving nursing theory.
It is hoped that these pages make clear the interrelations of nursing theory and various nursing endeavors, and that the discipline and practice of nursing
will thus... |