The nursing instructor is teaching a class on nursing theory.One of the students asks,"Why do we need to know this stuff? It doesn't really affect patients." The instructor's best response would be
A) "You are correct, but we have to learn it anyway."
B) "Exposure to theories will help you later in graduate school."
C) "Theories help keep the focus of nursing narrow."
D) "Theories help explain why nurses do what they do."

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Theories offer well-grounded rationales or reasons for how and why nurses perform specific interventions.Learning about theories is important because these theories help to describe,explain,predict,and/or prescribe nursing care measures.Although nursing theory will help the nurse in graduate school,it is also an important basis for the nurse's approach to daily patient care,and it expands scientific knowledge of the profession.

The Nursing Instructor Is Teaching a Class on Nursing Theory