RELATIONSHIP OF

THEORY,
LANGUAGE AND
OPERATIONAL
REASONING
Cathleen Felipe
 WHAT IS THEORY?

Theory is an idea or set of ideas that

is intended to explain facts or
events.
It is also an idea that is suggested or
presented as possibly true but that
is not known or proven to be true.
PURPOSES OF NURSING
THEORY
Theories help to show how things fit together. The
function of theory is to provide a framework for
explaining, predicting, and sometimes controlling
situations.

Direct links exist among theory, education, research,

and clinical practice. In many cases, nursing theory
guides nursing knowledge development and directs
education, research, and practice though influences the
others. The interface between nursing experts in each
area helps to ensure that work in the other areas
remains relevant, current, and useful and ultimately
influences health.
 LANGUAGE

Language is the system of words or

signs that people use to express
thoughts and feelings to each other.

A systemic means of communicating

ideas or feelings by the use of
conventionalized signs, sounds,
gestures or marks having understood
meanings.
 IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE IN NURSING

Language is very important in the nursing

practice, it is the primary way for us to
know the problems and how we can
assess, diagnosed, plan, provide
intervention, and to evaluate the case of
each patient. Language helps us also
collaborate to different personnel who
are needed for patients care, like the
doctors, pharmacist, radiologists and
dieticians.
 OPERATION REASONING

Is a reasoning that is used to

ensure comprehensible
knowledge of the terminology
and the ability to operate a
process, procedure, or service
and/or collect data consistently
reliably.
 RELATIONSHIP

Theory, language and operational reasoning

interrelated to each other in the sense that they all
goes together. Operation reasoning is a reasoning that
ensure comprehensive knowledge for us to do reliable
procedure, process and service, it is also use to
collect data, before we come up to a theory, we need
now to think for the possible problems that we can
solve through theory. So, how can we collect? This is
through language; we can be able to communicate to
different people that will help us formulate the
theory, because communication is a primary need to
collect data. Data collection through language,
processing this data through operation reasoning and
we can come up to formulate theory.
 RELATIONSHIP
Theory is very important; we
practiced nursing through this
theory, through this theory our
duties and nursing practice are
being improved and through this
optimum level of care are being
given to our patient legally and
ethically.