The topic will be Cultural competence using Leningers cultural care diversity and universality theory approach in answering the questions below.
PURPOSE: To select a theory, relevant to your current practice problem, to analyze and evaluate with respect to nursing science.
Introduction: In details, describe the middle range theory you have chosen and discuss how it relates to a practice problem you have identified in a particular nursing environment of your choice. Give a brief background of the theorist including the paradigmatic origins of the theory.
– Define important/major concepts in the theory and discuss how the concepts are related to one another.
– Elaborate on how the theorist drew relationships among concepts and describe how those relationships are of interest to nursing. Address how the theory is being used in nursing literature and provide evidence from the literature to support your claim.
Critique of the use of your theory in research. Discuss the following :
a. scope/parsimony/generalizable
b. clarity and consistency
c. simplicity/complexity
d. logical coherence?
e. diagram? (simple, complex)
f. circle of contagiousness (has it been used in different disciplines, cross cultures, or by scholars outside of the U.S. Provide references.)
g. usefulness? (provide evidence from the literature)
h. testable?
Conclusion:
Discuss how your theory can be applied to solve your current practice problem. In addition, describe how the theory can also be useful to nursing research. Conclude with a thoughtful review on how theory, practice and research are linked.
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