title: A process-oriented approach. Selecting a nursing model for psychiatric nursing.
abstract: The nursing literature is replete with articles and books that describe nursing conceptual frameworks and models and encourage their use in clinical, education, and research activities. Although much information exists on the content of nursing models, less has been written about how a model is to be chosen and the process that may facilitate the choice of a model. This article reviews potential benefits and limitations of nursing models and conceptual frameworks and describes a three-phase process for selecting a model for psychiatric nursing practice.
authors.affiliation: Clark Institute of Psychiatry, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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authors.lastname: Johnston
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authors.lastname: Baumann
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research / Q000379:methods*; D009736:Nursing Process; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results