This week we are focusing on the application of nursing theories to evidence-based practice. In NR 500, you explored an area of interest related to your selected specialty track. You then identified an issue/concern related to that area of interest. For this discussion: select a nursing theory or model that can be used as a framework to support the resolution of your identified issue/concern.

In your initial response, address the following:

How the selected nursing theory or model is relevant to your specialty track

A brief description of the issue/concern

How the selected nursing theory or model can be used to guide the resolution of the issue/concern

Include an example from the literature or your own experience to illustrate your points. Remember to include at least one outside scholarly source.

Solution:

The mother and baby care field encounters a variety of challenges while handling mothers from conception to delivery and even postnatal care. Among the issues is the lack of knowledge regarding how to take up the maternal role and provide appropriate and high quality care for the newborns and themselves all through their growth and development. This as a consequent overwhelms the new mothers and leads to distress. As such, there need for more consideration of care for mothers following delivery. The theory that could effectively facilitate the implementation of evidence based practice for resolution of the issue is the Watson’s nursing theory. This theory as stated by Watson and Brewer (2015) is comprised of four steps that aid in the process of decision making which are the assessment, the planning, the development of an intervention, and the evaluation stage. The assessment stage takes into account the explicit identification, review and analysis of the nursing issue identified and establishes the need for hypothesis formulation. The planning stage entails….Please click the Paypal icon below to purchase full solution for only $5