Question

Pick 3 stages of nursing theory development to discuss. Your discussion is to include a description of the stage and it's impact on theory. The stages are silent, received, subjective, procedural, constructed and integrated. You may not copy anyone else's work or from your textbook or other sources.

Answer 1

Here, we will discuss about silent knowledge stage, subject knowledge stage and received knowledge stage.

Silent knowledge stage is period where nurses practice blind obedience to medical authority. Hospital schools believed that the nursing education comprises only of learning technical skills and that there is no need to be educated of theory. It is in this stage that nurses are dependent to doctors and they carry out orders no questions asked.

Received knowledge stage is the time when nurses were encouraged to be registered as a professional by taking up state licensure and pursue graduate education to study Nursing function and purpose.

Subject knowledge stage is the period where authority was internalised and new sence of self emerged. Nurse scholars focused on defining nursing and developed theories about and for nursing.