Separation Between Nursing Theory And Practice

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Dr. Pamela Shuler is a certified family nurse practitioner who has a doctorate degree in public health nursing. She specializes in women’s healthcare and in preventive, hormonal, nutritional and metabolic therapies (Pamela Shuler n.d.). While working as a registered nurse, Shuler recognized the separation between nursing theory and practice. She realized that there are many reasons why practicing nurses have a difficult time applying nursing theories to their practice. According to Shuler, the three main reasons were the vocabulary used to describe theories, the different viewpoints of nursing theorists and nurse clinicians, and the nursing theories during that time may have been defined as grand theories (Shuler & Davis, 1993). To close the