To be nursing as a profession, the most essential requirement in nursing education is theoretical orientation of nursing to students and the application of their theoretical orientation to clinical practices. Unfortunately, nursing theory in classroom and clinical practices are separated. While the classroom grand theories remain in abstract discussion, the clinical practices have been adhered to institutional rules and procedures without serious self-reflection as an autonomous nursing professional.
This article attempts to develop a model of nursing theory education articulating theory and practice. The model developed from the idea of Choo´s sense-making and creation of knowledge in organizational activities, which emphasizes individual capacity and construction process of social reality among actors. As a strategy for an effective teaching of nursing theory, the study introduces several progressive steps articulating theoretical ideas and situational factors in clinical practices. The educational program is composed with five progressive steps: 1) group assignment, 2) selection of nursing problem, 3) information collection for sense-making, 1) arrangement of tacit . knowledge content for externalization, 5) combination of explicit knowledge for knowledge or concept creation.
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