Using your experience in nursing practice, think about how each of the following terms applies to you:
• Phenomena
• Concept
• Preposition
• Assumptions
• Implicit bias
• Explicit bias
For example, falls in clinical practice are highly correlated with patients who have dementia. This is the phenomenon. The concepts related to the phenomenon are “risk and safety.” The assumption is that patients with dementia have a risk of safety.
Another example is the phenomena of death and dying by Dr. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross. Dr. Kübler-Ross identified the concept of death and dying and formalized 5 stages from the phenomena she observed when interviewing patients and family members.
Now that you have reviewed the examples, identify a nursing theory and describe how it is applied in your current clinical practice.
