A nursing student understands that a nursing theory is a conceptualization of some aspect of nursing that describes, explains, predicts, or prescribes nursing care. Which points about theories made by the nursing student are accurate?
A. A discipline constitutes a major portion of the knowledge of a theory.
B. A nursing theory helps to identify the focus, means, and goals of practice.
C. Theories give a perspective to assess the situation of a client and to organize data and methods for analyzing and interpreting information.
D. Theory and scientific inquiry do not go hand in hand because they fail to provide guidelines for decision making, problem solving, and nursing interventions.
E. Application of nursing theory in practice depends on the knowledge of nursing and other theoretical models, how they relate to one another, and their use in designing nursing interventions.