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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NURSING THEORY and PRACTICE

This research examines the relationships between nursing theory, practice, and research. As the profession of nursing becomes increasingly complex, nurses assume greater responsibilities in the areas of clinical practice, theory development, and the advance of nursing science through research (Krouse and Holloran, 1992, pp. 62-64). A changing face of the broader society drives change in nursing (Loveridge, 1991, pp. 46-47). In turn, the changes in both society and the nursing profession often tend to push practitioners, theorists, and researchers in different directions.

Koziol-McLain and Maeve (1993, pp. 79-81) suggested that practicing nurses should be wary of nursing theory. While recognizing a role for theory in nursing, Koziol-McLain and Maeve (1994, p. 142) contended that nursing theory is useful only when "used to describe and when it entices us to want to know more," but that theory in nursing is not useful when such theory is prescriptive in nature. Nagel and Mitchell (1994, p. 141) contended that the position of Koziol-McLain and Maeve places nursing in the realm of applied science, whereas according the Nagel and Mitchell nursing is a basic science. This difference in perspective underscores a major problem that characterizes the relationships between nursing practice, theory, and research. That problem is that practicing nurses, nurse theorists, and nurse researchers often have difficulty in agreeing on a definition of just what nursing is. Within the context of this problem of defining nursing, it is not surprising that conflict frequently characterizes the relationships between practicing nurses, nurse theorists, and nurse researchers.

From the time of Florence Nightingale, the concept of person has played a major role in nursing theory and its development (Flynn and Heffron, 1988, pp. 9-10, 71). While nursing theory has evolved since the nineteenth century, Nightingale's concept of person has remained as a...

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