26 Jan Respond to their

Unit 1 discussion

DQ1 Introductions and Theoretical Knowledge

Please complete the following steps for your first discussion post and response.

As a way of introducing yourselves to the instructor and your peers, please post the following:

Your name and a description of your current job (If not currently employed, what are your employment expectations when you complete your program). (State what track you are in, RN-BSN, NE, NL, FNP)

How do you see yourself applying knowledge from this course?

Post a photo of yourself (self-portrait, family, or other picture that includes you). If the photo is not a self-portrait, describe where you are in the picture. (Feel free to share about your family and hobbies)

In addition,

Theoretical Knowledge

Please read the following introduction and complete the following steps for your initial discussion post:

Nursing researchers have argued that nurses are taught to value clinical skills over theoretical knowledge. With the focus on medical interventions, laboratory values, and nursing diagnoses, theory is often under-represented. This can cause nurses to react to nursing theory as having little or nothing to do with the profession of nursing.

As you begin your graduate level nursing career, consider the following:

Do you agree with this assessment?

Based on your prior experiences, how much has theory been integrated into your nursing education?

In your opinion, how might a greater theoretical awareness benefit your education at the graduate level?

Be sure to supplement your discussion with your personal and professional experiences.

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

Unit 1 Discussion 1 Peer Response due Sunday

Introductions

Please respond to a minimum of two peers. Include in your response:

A commonality between yourself and your peer, or something about them that you find interesting.

In addition, post a response to

Theoretical Knowledge:

Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s posts. To ensure that your responses are substantive, use at least two of these prompts:

Compare your response to the responses of your peers. How do your posts differ; how are they the same?

Discuss how your past educational experiences related to theory differed, if at all.

Contrast their opinions with your own.

Present new references that support your opinions.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour

DQ2 Nursing Theory and Practice

Please read the following introduction and complete the following steps for your initial discussion post:

Nursing theory is a framework designed to organize knowledge and explain phenomena in nursing at a more specific and concrete level. Nursing theory gives terms to provide the body of knowledge that is used to support nursing practice. Nursing theory is a set of concepts, definitions, relationships and assumptions or propositions derived from nursing models or from other disciplines and project a purposive systematic view of phenomena by designing specific inter-relationships among concepts for the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting and prescribing (Lee, 2014).

Discuss the value of theory to the profession of nursing (Nursing Practice, Nursing Education, Nursing Research, or Nursing Management).

Identify one way in which you could use theory to improve your practice in your present or future role.

Be sure to supplement your discussion with your personal and professional experiences.

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

This topic is valued at 40 points. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria.

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours

References:

Lee, S. (2014). Overview of Nursing Theories. Seoul National University, 12, 58-67. Retrieved from

http://www.oita-nhs.ac.jp/journal/PDF/12_2/12_2_3.pdf

Unit 1 Discussion 2 Peer Response due Sunday

Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s posts. To ensure that your responses are substantive, use at least three of these prompts:

Compare your peers’ responses about the value of nursing theory to yours; how are they different, how are they the same?

Respond to their ideas on how to use nursing theory in their practice:

Do you have similar ideas?

Do you agree with their suggestions on how theory can improve their practice?

Ask for clarification if needed.

Present new references that support your opinions.

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour