Nursing Theory and Advanced Nursing Practice

Nursing theories influences nursing practice each day. In practice, most nurses use a number of theories rather than just one theory. Nursing theories play a crucial role in every patient nursing care.  Nursing theories also help nurses to use critical thinking skills, analytical skills and improve concept comprehension. Nursing theories improve patient care, nurse-patient communication and patient outcomes. Through the use of nursing theories in practice, new knowledge and data are obtained that can influence the future of nursing practice. The average annual salary for Nurse practitioner is $97,990.