[Nursing theories--friends or foes? Student nurses' perspective]

Nursing researchers consider nursing theories too theoretical and complicated to apply in practice. In this study student nurses in their last term are being interviewed about their ideas of nursing theories. A lot of different views emerged. The conclusion to make from this study is that a frequent presentation both practical and theoretical is required in order to make theories more accessible to nursing students. It is also important that different kinds of theories are exposed to give the students the possibility to find the theory most suited for the personality. This also gives the student the advantage to choose the essence from each theory. This is a way to establish a natural relationship between students and nursing theories and thereby the students will find easier ways to apply nursing theories in different nursing actions.