Further reflection on Semester Saturday’s theme, ‘Theory in Practice,’ brings much clarity to practicality of theory with respect to DNP project development. Theory in a New Light Upon completion of the Project I course, I was feeling fairly confident in my progress with my early project development, but I was viewing theory as a bit more of an afterthought, as something that is needed but not necessarily useful. Wow, was I wrong! After spending the first couple weeks of th

A few key take-aways from this 'Semester Saturday’ that really helped to provide context, applicability and centeredness to the study of theory were: (1) Theories, models and frameworks are often interdependent with no single best one for any given situation, vary based on context and, simply, and generally stated, provide a structure to our observations and understanding of the world (Nilsen, 2015); (2) Theory is influenced by the lens through which the user views the situat