I'ts purpose is for a standard guide of practice. A set of guidelines for the nurse to follow as a professional.
What Is The Purpose Of Nursing Theory?
• Assist nurses to describe, explain, and predict everyday experiences.
• Serve to guide assessment, intervention, and evaluation of nursing care.
• Provide a rationale for collecting reliable and valid data about the health status of clients, which are essential for effective decision making and implementation.
• Help to establish criteria to measure the quality of nursing care
• Help build a common nursing terminology to use in communicating with other health professionals. Ideas are developed and words defined.
• Enhance autonomy (independence and self-governance) of nursing by defining its own independent functions.
• Serve to guide assessment, intervention, and evaluation of nursing care.
• Provide a rationale for collecting reliable and valid data about the health status of clients, which are essential for effective decision making and implementation.
• Help to establish criteria to measure the quality of nursing care
• Help build a common nursing terminology to use in communicating with other health professionals. Ideas are developed and words defined.
• Enhance autonomy (independence and self-governance) of nursing by defining its own independent functions.
Nursing theory provides a rationale for the various aspects of nursing.Hence one can tell the reasons for performing different tasks for effective decision making and implementation.
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