Explain what practice or clinical setting you chose, how the six criteria helped you choose
Use the six criteria from this week’s readings from Fundamentals of Nursing Models, Theories, and Practice (Chapters 5 and 7) as a guide for this assignment.
Select a practice/clinical setting.
Use the following six criteria to select a theory appropriate for the setting you chose:
Clinical setting
Origin of the theory
Paradigms as a basis for choice
Simplicity
Patient’s needs
Understandability
Explain what practice or clinical setting you chose, how the six criteria helped you choose, and why the selected theory is well suited to it
Cite a minimum of two in-text sources, and include a page or slide with APA-formatted references.
Format your assignment as one of the following:
1,050- to 1,225-word paper
References
McKenna, H., Pajnkihar, M., & Murphy, F. (2014). Fundamentals of nursing models, theories and practice (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons. (Chapters 5 and 7)
(optional/additional)
Ahtisham, Y., & Sommer, J. (2015). Integrating nursing theory and process into practice: Virginia’s Henderson need theory. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 8 (2), 443-450.
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