[Expert Solution]: OBJECTIVES: 1

OBJECTIVES: 1. Analyze the philosophy of science and theory development. • Identify the components of a theory. • Analyze theories used at each level. 2. Evaluate how nursing theory guides practice, research, and education: • Relate nursing theories to selected practice situations; • Explain research support for selected theories; • Demonstrate how theories guide nursing practice within the profession and discipline of nursing. 3. Compare nursing theories with theories from other disciplines: • Apply a framework to describe and analyze selected theories/models; • Critique and evaluate selected theories/models; • Relate selected theories from the biological, behavioral, social, organizational, and natural sciences to those used in nursing practice. 4. Relate the distinctiveness of the nursing domain to the advancement of nursing as a discipline: • Synthesize core values of a selected theory to practice, research, education, and administration; • Critically analyze professional practice guidelines for upholding core values of a selected theory.