Response Discussion
Respond to Juanita’s post below. Post must be substantive and add tot he discussion in a meaningful way.
Juanita Brown
Discuss, Analyze, and Apply One Non-nursing or Inter-professional Theory to APRN Practice and Environment
COLLAPSE
Week 6 DB: Discuss, Analyze, and Apply One Non-nursing or Inter-professional Theory to APRN Practice and Environment
Healthcare today is multidisciplinary, with several teams collaborating that have possible input on how patients are cared for by the nursing team (McKenna, 1997). The importance of applying a non-nursing theory to nursing practice is moving the discipline forward and keeping it dynamic. The combined experience of the interprofessional teams and the skills acquired by a seasoned nurse are invaluable to the care of patients. Appropriated expertise can be cultivated, modified, and studied for its appropriateness to the desired outcomes of nursing (McKenna, 1997). Limiting a nursing practice to one theory would set the profession back to a medical model mindset with procedure books (McKenna, 1997).
The Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), which evolved into the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), focuses on theoretical constructs concerned with individual motivating factors as determinants of the probability that a person will perform a specific behavior (Kritsonis & Hills, 2005). It requires that the person have a positive attitude toward the desired behavior and that they are influenced by their social environment or subjective norms (Kritsonis & Hills, 2005). To discover the appropriateness of this theory to nursing practice, an analysis of the theory follows using the five evaluating categories from our text. The theory’s development is its evolution from TRA to TPB by adding the variable of perceived behavioral control (PBC) (Emekci, 2019). The structure of the theory is clear, simple, consistent, and found to have sound reasoning. The following excerpt from our text speaks to the use and testing of the theory.
TPB has been applied widely to help understand and explain many types of behavior. Both TRA and TPB can successfully predict a wide range of health behaviors and intentions, including smoking, health service utilization, exercise, sun protection, mammography, HIV/ sexually transmitted infection prevention behaviors, and the use of alcohol, substances, contraceptives, safety helmets, and seat belts (Montano & Kasprzyk, 2008; Steinmetz et al., 2016 as cited in Glanz et al., 2021, p. 206).
Regarding the influence of knowledge development, the creators of TPB, Fishbein, and Ajzen, have included parts of other widely used behavioral theories in it and anticipate the use of an integrated behavioral model (IBM) as a basis for identifying certain belief targets for behavioral change interventions (Glanz et al., 2021). All of these categories apply to nursing practice, and behavioral change is paramount to the teaching conducted by nurses to correct modifiable health conditions.
In conclusion, using non-nursing theories in advanced nursing practice allows practitioners to look at their training from a different perspective. It will ensure diversity in care approach when appropriate while encouraging the nurse to remain open to new advances in care. Nursing cannot afford to be dogmatic in its methodology. To do so would promote stagnation. Familiarity with other fields fosters social understanding in nurses (McKenna, 1997).
