COURSE:

NR501: Nursing Theory

NR501 Week 4 Collaboration Café

This class presents various types of nursing theories and how the concepts of the nursing metaparadigm distinguish nursing theory from other theories we may use. Please share a nursing theory that you have found to be helpful to you in practice. Why is this nursing theory meaningful to you? Feel free to share an example of how this theory guides your practice as a nurse.

SOLUTION

The Jean Watson theory of Human Caring science has been one of the most influential theories that has guided my practice since I became a nurse. Caring is the center of nursing and is used predominantly to describe the inherent work and value of nursing. The word caring is even contained within the definition of ‘nurse,’ that being a person…………………………….$5