ABSTRACT
The extensive use of examples of the properties of the core concepts and their interrelationships are intended to assist a clear understanding of the complexity of data. The large number of codes encompassed within the core concepts and their organisation and illustration into various properties make a substantial contribution to conveying the richness of nursing action and patient outcome. The nurse’s presence may also be seen to enhance the nurse’s attempts to verbally reassure the patient. D. R. Hines argues that the nurse’s presence is a central feature of their relationship with the patient which can contribute to the patient’s wellbeing. External criticism refers to the relationship of theory to health and nursing and includes judgement about the theory's adequacy, utility, significance, capacity for discrimination, scope and complexity. To avoid the appraisal becoming too cumbersome it will focus on the core concepts and major premises and the corresponding propositions.
