NUR 502 Week 4 Assignment 2 Application of Concept Analysis to Clinical Practice

Benchmark Assignment: Application of Concept Analysis to Clinical Practice

Details:
Select a peer-reviewed concept analysis article of your choice and write a response of 1,000–1,250 words. Use the following guidelines:

1. Include an introduction.
2. Describe the method of analysis, using the article and chapter 3 of Theoretical Basis for Nursing.
3. Describe the steps of process and the results for each step.
4. Apply the concept to a practice situation.
5. Include a conclusion.

Prepare this assignment according to APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.

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NUR 502 Week 5 Assignment

Applying Theory to a Practice Problem: Part 1: Introduction and Problem of Practice

Details:

PURPOSE:

It is important to understand how research can help you in your everyday environment as a nurse. In this assignment, you will identify a practical problem that emerges from the evidence in the extant literature or professional practice.

DIRECTIONS:

Chose a problem that you are encountering in your practice or about which you have read in the current literature.

Write a paper (250 to 500 words) that describes a practical problem that emerges from the evidence in the extant literature or professional practice. The paper should do the following:

1. Clearly describe the problem.
2. Provide a rationale for the significance of this problem. The rationale must be supported by the current or seminal literature.

Prepare this assignment according to APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.

 

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Application of Concept Analysis to Clinical Practice

Introduction

Concept analysis is a method by which health care providers can better understand the meanings of words and phrases when communicating with patients. The use of concept analysis in clinical practice has been evaluated, but it is not widely accepted as a method for improving communication between medical professionals and their patients. In this article, we will outline the basic concepts behind concept analysis, describe how to apply them to clinical practice and discuss potential obstacles that may prevent its implementation within other fields as well.

Introduction to concept analysis

Concept analysis is a method of studying the concepts that are used in a particular domain. It is useful because it can be used to understand the concepts used in clinical practice and then improve clinical practice by analysing these concepts in order to find gaps or inconsistencies.

There are many different types of concept analysis, but all have one thing in common: they look at how people think about things, rather than what they do or say about those things.

Concept mapping

Concept mapping is a technique used to organize and visualize concepts. Concepts are grouped into sets of related concepts, which can then be visualized on the map. The purpose of concept mapping is to help you organize information so that you can identify relationships between the different things that are being described. It also helps you identify gaps in your knowledge about something, which allows for more effective decision-making by allowing you to see how much progress has been made in understanding it as well as where there may be room for improvement.

Concept analysis

In this paper, we will explore the concept analysis method as a tool for understanding and analyzing concepts used in clinical practice. Concept analysis is a method for describing and analyzing the concepts that are used in clinical practice. It can be used to study the various aspects of clinical practice such as its development, evolution and variation over time (Gagne & Stratton 2002).

In order to understand how concept analysis works we need firstly to define some key terms:

• Conception–A general idea about something or someone; (Schaffner 1999)

• Conceptualization–The process whereby one formulates a relation between items noted earlier(Schaffner 1999)

Clinical practice can be informed by a study of the concepts that are being used.

Concept analysis can be used to inform the clinical practice, develop a new clinical practice, improve the current clinical practice and explain the existing one.

A concept is defined as an idea or understanding about something; it is not necessarily correct. It can be a word, an idea or even an emotion that people have about something such as cancer or diabetes (Figure 1). Figure 2 shows how these concepts relate to each other in terms of levels of abstraction: given any one level at which we are looking at these concepts (such as ‘cancer’), we will find that there are many more levels above this one which make up our whole picture of what cancer is all about!

Conclusion

In conclusion, concept analysis can be helpful in clinical practice. It is a simple way to get informed about concepts that are being used and how they might relate to our own practice. We have seen that this approach can help us understand why people use particular words or phrases, which may then lead to alternative ways of describing the same thing. Concept analysis is also useful for identifying common challenges when working with different groups of people with specific needs (e.g., women versus men), helping us make sense of what we see when we enter into a new situation where there are no established norms yet.”