Week 4 – Theory-Guided Practice 

Use the six criteria from this week’s readings from Fundamentals of Nursing Models, Theories, and Practice (Chapters 5 and 7) as a guide for this assignment. You can access these readings directly by using the Theory-Guided Practice Readings Link directly below this assignment entry.

Select a practice/clinical setting.

Use the following six criteria to select a theory appropriate for the setting you chose:

• Clinical setting
• Origin of the theory
• Paradigms as a basis for choice
• Simplicity
• Patient’s needs
• Understandability

Explain what practice or clinical setting you chose, how the six criteria helped you choose, and why the selected theory is well suited to it.

Cite a minimum of two in-text sources, and include a page or slide with APA-formatted references.

Format your assignment as one of the following:

• 15- to 20-slide presentation with detailed speaker notes
• 15- to 20-minute oral presentation with detailed speaker notes
• 1,050- to 1,225-word paper
• Another format approved by your instructor