Explanatory Power and Nursing Theory.

Nurs Sci Q

College of Nursing, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

Published: July 2020

A theme of this article is the theory-research link and its essential role in advancing nursing science and practice. Concern is expressed over the current status of nursing theory relative to the advances in research and practice. Soon-to-be and current theoreticians and scientists are encouraged to champion not just proper but scientific nursing theories that have explanatory power. The role of the precision health movement in facilitating development of scientific theory is explored.

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