Assignment Prompt
Summary: A theory can be used to guide practice. This assignment is an exercise in supporting a clinical practice with theory and evidence.
Directions:
- Identify an outcome of nursing practice in your area of practice that can be improved.
- For example, if you work in home health, you may identify that throw rug use by fall risk patients is too prevalent.
- You may be able to use the problem that inspired the theory concepts that you developed in week two discussion question.
- Identify the concept in Watson’s Theory of Caring that could represent or include the outcome.
- In our example, the outcome would be the changes in self through the change in the patient’s floor covering practice. Identify a practice that can be changed or implemented that may influence the outcome.
- Identify the concept in Watson’s Theory of Caring that includes the practice.
- In our example, the practice could be to improve the understanding of fall hazards through the engagement in a teaching-learning experience, one of Watson’s Caritas Processes.
- Identify exactly how these two concepts will be measured with their operational definitions.
- Develop a proposition between the two.
Expectations
Length: 6 pages including title page, introduction, body, conclusion, and reference pages
References: 6-8 high-level scholarly reference in APA per post from within the last 5 years. There should be enough to support the links between the concepts of the problem and the concepts of Watson’s Theory of Caring.
