Abstract

RIBEIRO, Olga; MARTINS, Maria Manuela Ferreira Pereira da Silva; TRONCHIN, Daisy Maria Rizatto  and  SILVA, João Miguel Almeida Ventura da. Professional nursing practice grounded in the theoretical framework of the discipline: reality or utopia. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2018, vol.serIV, n.19, pp.39-48. ISSN 0874-0283.  https://doi.org/10.12707/RIV18040.

Background: Supporting nursing practice on the discipline’s conceptions is currently one of the biggest challenges, which is why it is important to understand nurses’ views. Objective: Analyzing hospital nurses’ perception of the relevance of the theoretical framework for sustaining their professional practice. Methodology: A qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study carried out in 19 hospitals, involving 56 nurses. The tool used for collecting data was a semi-structured interview. Results: Data analysis resulted in the following categories: Relevance of the theoretical framework for professional practice in nursing; Theoretical framework guiding professional practice in nursing; Constraints to the integration of the theoretical nursing framework and Strategies for the integration of theoretical nursing framework. Conclusion: Nurses’ intention to adopt a practice based on the theoretical framework of the discipline has been negatively influenced by their practice environment and by the difficulty in understanding and integrating the theoretical framework, thus resulting in the need to adopt strategies.

Keywords : nursing; professional practice; models, nursing; nursing theory; hospitals.

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