Select and critique a nursing theory of your choice.
Nursing critique paper
For this project, you will select and critique a nursing theory of your choice. You will:
Write an original paper.
Submit it to the dropbox for a grade based on the rubric.
The following are some conceptual models and theories you may choose from; however, you may choose any nurse theorist:
Florence Nightengale’s Environmental Model
Catherine Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory
Dorothy Johnson’s Behavioral System Model
Hildegard Peplau’s Interpersonal Process Theory
Dorothea Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Theory
Ida Jean Orlando’s Nursing Process
Sister Calista Roy’s Adaptation Model
Madeleine Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
Jean Watson’s Nursing as Caring Theory
Margaret Newman’s Health Expanding Consciousness
Martha Roger’s Science of Unitary of Human Being
Abdellah’s Patient-Centered Approaches Theory
Steps to follow to do your critique:
You can visit the Fitne website to watch videos about the above mentioned theorist.
You can use the Internet to find a journal or articles that provides an analysis and critique of a theory of nursing as a resource to start working with your own critique.
You need to login entering the following information:
Username: medical center campus
Password: medical
Under the Nurse Theorists: Portraits of Excellence (Volume I) link select the theorist of your choice
On the left navigation area select a topic to view
You must use the criteria for analysis and critique of theories in Chapter 1 of the George text book.
You will select the link “Library Resources” found under the “NUR3846 – Library” tab (located on left-side of screen) to do your research and complete your literature review of the model/theory you selected.
You may physically visit the library in person as well, and ask for help from the library staff.
Your critique must have the following headings and follow APA Guidelines.
Topic Description
Meaning
(30 pts.)
Describe the main ideas of the theory (should include the assumptions under which the theory operates).
What are the main concepts?
What are the main relationships between the concepts?
How do different concepts affect each other?
Origins of the Theory
(30 pts.)
What was going on in the profession of nursing or in American society that may have influenced the theory?
What values, theories, evidence, and/or existing knowledge did the theorist cite as support for the theory?
What motivated the theorist to write the theory?
What approach to theory development did the theorist use?
Usefulness
(20 pts.)
How useful is this theory in practice?
Is the theory practical and helpful to nursing?
Does it contribute to understanding and predicting outcomes?
Cite an example/case study where this theory could be used.
Testability
(10 pts.)
How testable is this theory?
Has this theory generated research? How many and what types of studies?
Give one example of a study done using the theory
What types of statements are the propositions?
Overall Evaluation
(10 pts.)
Is the theory comprehensive and specific?
How general is the theory?
Summarize the strengths and weaknesses of the theory.
Why would you use or not use this theory in your own advanced practice? (Begin to think about the your presentation “Synthesis of Nursing Theory”).

Topics: critical race theory, racism, racism and academics
 
To find these potential articles, you can search google scholar, one of the psychology databases (i.e. PSYC INFO), or look in a specific journal (i.e. Journal of Applied Psychology). MUST BE JOURNALS NO WEBSITES!!!
You will summarize 2 articles. You will read the article and then summarize the article in approximately 350 words or more. Remember, these summaries are to help you to remember the most important aspects of the articles so that you can integrate them into your Social Topic Paper at the end of the semester.
 
Make sure that you include: FOLLOW THIS
–           Title and authors of the article
–           Why the article was written (introduction), and what it attempts to find or answer (hypothesis section)
–           How it answers the question or questions it proposes (method section)
–           What the article found (results)
–           What the results actually mean (discussion)
 
Be careful to ensure that your answers to the above information make sense to you, as you will be relying on this information to write your paper and I eventually will be reading these. Make sure to explain any complex ideas in plain language, and don’t assume I as the reader know what you are talking about. Summarize these articles succinctly but yet thoroughly. Each Paper Article Summary must be at least 350 words for a total of 700+ words (each article should be 350 words a piece).