NURS 8816 Conceptual Frameworks/Theoretical Models for Federal and Military Health Care
This foundational course equips students to conceptualize a phenomenon relevant to science, practice, or policy knowledge gaps related to federal nursing service. Strategies for theory development and evaluation that advance knowledge and guide professional practice and policy will be considered. The development and testing of concepts, the generation of middle range theories and their critique and evaluation are emphasized in the context of military and federal health systems. Students will identify, critique, and build concepts, theories and frameworks that are useful in their area of scientific interest. Using experiential observations, as well as published theoretical and research literature, students will explore a nursing phenomenon from concept analysis to theory synthesis in support of their selected area of scientific study and scholarly development.