Question

1. Provide an example of Nursing grand theory and discuss why it is significant to nursing students, aspiring nurses, and health professionals.

2. In your opinion, whose grand theory you think can be further developed? Discuss why?

3. Differentiate Nursing Conceptual Models and Nursing Grand Theory.

Answer 1

1.Nursing grand theories are the global paradigms of nursing science. They are formal, highly abstract theoretical systems that frame our disciplinary knowledge within the principles of nursing, and their concepts and propositions transcend specific events and patient populations.

The self-care deficit nursing theory is a grand nursing theory that was developed between 1959 and 2001 by Dorothea Orem. The theory is also referred to as the Orem's Model of Nursing. It is particularly used in rehabilitation and primary care settings, where the patient is encouraged to be as independent as possible.It is this self care deficit which paved way for various nursing theories and highlights the importance of the role that nurses play in a society. Orem states that nursing is a helping service and its goal is to overcome human limitations and to make certain that the patient is provided with assistance to cope up with his illness or injury until he rovers from it. When an individual is unable to cope up with his physical or mental instability, nursing renders him the required assistance and the methods and techniques that nurses use in order to attain their goal is known as nursing system.

3.One of the major difference between a nursing model and nursing theory is that the nursing conceptual model is to provide guidance particularly to the individual in their research whereas, the nursing theory explains about the nursing phenomenon process which is based on the research.

Nursing conceptual models can serve as facilitative frameworks for organizing and conducting research studies. Theories describe proposed and testable relationships between variables that are conceptually linked.