Making nursing models relevant for the practising nurse

In this article the authors examine the background to the development of the nursing process and nursing models. The latter, it is argued, provide the theoretical framework for nursing actions. The descriptive study described here by the authors, took place at Michigan State University. The aim was to determine how useful nurses perceived nursing theory to their practice--in a setting where nursing theory had been taught for ten years. Nursing models were found to be useful to practising nurses in the clinical setting.