This course is focused on theories and concepts that inform professional nursing practice across settings and spheres of care. The relations between concepts, theories, nursing knowledge, and nursing practice are emphasized. The evolution of knowledge for nursing practice, in nursing practice, and of nursing practice are emphasized in the course.
Outcomes: Understand influential forces in the development of knowledge for professional nursing practice; Analyze the relation between theory, research and scholarship, and practice; Differentiate knowledge for nursing practice, knowledge in nursing practice, and knowledge of nursing practice; Relate patterns of knowing to professional nursing practice; Explain the use of selected concepts and theories as guides to nursing practice.
Outcomes: Understand influential forces in the development of knowledge for professional nursing practice; Analyze the relation between theory, research and scholarship, and practice; Differentiate knowledge for nursing practice, knowledge in nursing practice, and knowledge of nursing practice; Relate patterns of knowing to professional nursing practice; Explain the use of selected concepts and theories as guides to nursing practice.