title: Composite or confusion: seeking coherence in multiplicity.
abstract: The importance and challenges of the teaching of nursing theory in Uganda are discussed in this introduction to the column that follows it. Two assumptions are questioned, the first is that it is easier to teach nursing students in places like Uganda concrete theories rather than abstract ones, and the other is that a composite of theoretical perspectives in nursing is more practical than a unified theoretical framework for nurses and advanced practice nurses.
authors.affiliation: Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York 11596, USA. sbaumann@hunter.cuny.edu
authors.forename: Steven L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Baumann
mesh_terms: D057179:Advanced Practice Nursing; D003221:Confusion; D006801:Humans; D009742:Nursing Theory; D060685:Sense of Coherence; D014454:Uganda