Wk4 Theory


Identify your specialty area of NP practice (psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner). Select a nursing theory, borrowed theory, or interdisciplinary theory provided in the lesson plan or one of your own findings. Address the following:

  • Origin
  • Meaning and scope
  • Logical adequacy
  • Usefulness and simplicity
  • Generalizability
  • Testability

Finally, provide an example how the theory could be used to improve or evaluate the quality of practice in your specific setting(psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner). What rationale can you provide that validates the theory as applicable to the role of the future nurse practitioner.

presents information in logical, meaningful, and understandable sequence, and is clearly relevant to the discussion topic. Grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation are accurate. References have complete information as required by APA (0 errors) In-text citations included for all references AND references included for all in-text citations (0 errors) no more than 5 years old for  clinical  or research articles