Presentation Guidelines
Format for presentation:
1. Brief biography of the nursing theorist
- Make the theorist “come alive†.
- How did the theorist get to the point of proposing the theory?
- How has the theorist evolved the theory/model evolved since the initial conceptualization?
2. Analysis of theory
- Describe the theory
- Clarify the focus and scope and reasons for designation
- Identify and explain the content (concepts, non-relational and relational propositions)
- Explicate the metaparadigm concepts (person, health, environment, nursing)
- The context in which the theory was developed, if available
3. Evaluation of the theory: (this section is to be supported and linked to the
definition of the criteria for analysis
- Scope, comprehensiveness or range: significance of the theory:
- Explication/ parsimony/ clarity
- Social utility and significance
- Logical development; clarity
- Credibility/ reality convergence
- Its ability to generate theory if a conceptual model or if a theory, its testability
- One journal article are to be presented and discussed that have utilized the theory/model as an underpinning for research demonstrating evidence-base practice.
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