"Running head: IMPACT OF NURSING THEORY1Impact of Nursing TheoryNameInstitutionIMPACT OF NURSING THEORY2Impact of Nursing TheoryIntroductionNursing is getting involved in health care industry and working with patients at personallevel. Nurses care for individual patients together with their families. Thetheory is a coherentgroup of propositions used as canons of explanation. Therefore, nursing theory refers to rigorousand creative structure of opinions that project a systematic, purposeful, and tentative view ofphenomena. Various theories of nursing exist. For example, Executive Nurse Leadership,Dorthea Orem, and Florence Nightingale theories. The first oneviews nurses as leaders.Therefore, they inspire and encourage other registered nurses as well as hold them accountablefor their actions so as to ensure job satisfaction in their activities (Ennis, Happell& Reid-Searl,2015).In addition, they provide support, motivate, coordinate, and provide resources necessary toenable individuals and teams to arrive at their collective goals. Importance of Nursing TheoryNursing theory is associated with many benefits such as providing information to peopleon its need. Before the theorieswere introduced, individuals had less knowledge on theimportance of nursing. Therefore, the they have helped in educating people on the benefits ofnursing as well as enablingstudents to understand themfaster. Secondly, the theories give anoutline for reflection that defines a direction that a plan should take to achieve a set objective.The framework provides an arrangement for management, decision making and investigation.The theories also enforce a structure for communication with other nurses, representatives, andmembers of health care group. Nursing theories help in the development of formulatedobjectives, values, and beliefs. The theories assist in defining the various contribution of nursingtocaringfor clients.IMPACT OF NURSING THEORY3The study of nursing is essential in the master program because it brings transformativethinking, evolutionary change, and call for continuing imagination in graduate education.Including the study of nursing in master will prepare students for flexible leadership, and criticalaction within sophisticated and changing systems such as health, organizational, and educationalsystems. Master education helps in equipping students with valuable skills and knowledge tobring change, increase health, and accelerate care in different roles and settings. Therefore,master’s education prepares nurses who have the knowledge and skills to address the gapsresulting from healthcare needs (Ferrell& DeCrane, 2016).Nursing theory sets standard rules for conducting activities, which enable students tohave a common procedure for treating patients. The theoriesprovide a guideline for nursing indefining its professional parameters. In addition, the theories provide nursing practice withguidelines that support it as an independent profession, which is majorly based on providinggeneric care on medicine. The uniqueness of the role of nursing separates it from other healthcare professions. Therole of nursing is groundedin four concepts of metaparadigm that major on human needs. Thefour concepts include health, person, environment, and nursing practice. The conceptualframework of the concepts gives nurses ability to involve theories in their practice so as todifferentiate it from other healthcare professions. The frameworks are constructed systematically,based on science, and are related logically. However, the person should be the most important ofthe four concepts, and it includes patient and nurse. The main concern regarding the use of nursing theory within the profession isknowledge.Knowledge of the theory should be a major concern since its development is important. IMPACT OF NURSING THEORY4Knowledge is familiarity gained through experience, and it determines the competency of agroup of people. Summary of executive nursing leadership theoryExecutive nursing leadership theorywas developed by Ann Scott Blouin in her attempt toexplain how nurse leaders can be supported to executive roles. It addresses how the support anurse receives from their partner and from the workplace can aide their journey toexecutiveroles. The theory was first published in the 1970 and the lasted edition was in the year2015 in The Importance of the partner: Supporting Nurse Leader’s Journey to ExecutiveRoles(Blouin, 2015).The concepts contained in this theory are shared by many nurse executives’when outlining their success stories. The concepts include:1) Negotiating: The Division of LaborWhen supporting the nurse leaders’ journey to executive roles, it is important to addressthe key question of “who does what.” It is the nature of human to perform well and growfaster when assigned tasks that they are happy while undertaking. It is a common viewthat people should do those tasks that address their dreams and aspirations in life. Nursesshould never suffer in silence and should be open to suggest tasks they think will fasttrack their growth towards achieving their goals.2) Flexibility: Key to survival and growthEvery nurse who wants to experience growth towards executive roles must embraceflexibility. They must realize that there comes a time when they have to drift in and out ofroles. It is also important for their partners to embrace the same idea so that these nursescan have the support they need to grow professionally. This theory addresses the four metaparadigms/ concepts in the following ways: "