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Causation and Validation of Nursing Diagnoses: A Middle Range Theory
Marcos Venícios de Oliveira Lopes1, Viviane Martins da Silva1, T Heather Herdman1,2
1Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Purpose:
To describe a predictive middle range theory (MRT) that provides a process for validation and incorporation of nursing diagnoses in clinical practice.
Data Sources:
Literature review.
Data Synthesis:
The MRT includes definitions, a pictorial scheme, propositions, causal relationships, and translation to nursing practice.
Conclusions:
The MRT can be a useful alternative for education, research, and translation of this knowledge into practice.
Implications For Nursing Practice:
This MRT can assist clinicians in understanding clinical reasoning, based on temporal logic and spectral interaction among elements of nursing classifications. In turn, this understanding will improve the use and accuracy of nursing diagnosis, which is a critical component of the nursing process that forms a basis for nursing practice standards worldwide.
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