Chapter Questions
Explain the barriers and forces that led to utilizing theoretical thinking in your area of clinical practice (or education, administration, or consultation).
Discuss how the changes toward women's and men's roles may have influenced nursing knowledge development. What changes would you like to see in the future that you believe could make an impact on advancing theoretical thinking in nursing? Be specific in identifying changes and influences.
Identify and discuss one more constraint and one more force that may have influenced the theoretical journey in the discipline.
In what ways did the wave of the nursing shortage in the $1980 \mathrm{~s}$ and in 2000 support or constrain theoretical thinking? Why?Are there ways to influence the cycle of shortage and theoretical thinking?
As gender, ethnic, and sociocultural diversity increases in nursing, what might be some implications for scholarship in nursing? Envision and discuss outcomes. Provide support for your arguments.
Discuss the current situation in the use of theoretical nursing. How are theories used? What are the outcomes of use or nonuse of nursing theoretical thinking?
In what ways did the discourse of evidence-based practice contribute to or hinder the development of nursing theories?
In your view, what are some of the current dominant discourses in nursing? What evidence do you have for this assertion? In what ways did this dominant discourse influence knowledge development?