Graduate school means a lot of studying about the phenomena or concepts underlying nursing practice. One of these concepts may be interesting to you to the point that you may want to study it for your thesis or dissertation or for your capstone project. One of the ways that faculty
Nursing theory is not that old. Other than Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing in 1860, nursing theories only started to be developed in the 1950s. So was nursing atheoretical until then? No. Nurses “borrowed” theories from other disciplines to inform nursing practice. Nurses borrowed theories from psychology, physiology, sociology, medicine, physics, and organizational