To meet this Magnet Recognition program requirement, many organizations choose from existing nursing theories and implement professional nursing practice through a single theory. The expectation is set that the theory be adopted across all nursing units, regardless of the type of patients or nursing practice. Because theories are more concrete than frameworks, nursing theories focus on an aspect of nursing practice and have a specific underlying context. All nursing theories explain some portion of phenomena in nursing, such as Jean Watson and her Theory of Human Caring,3 where her focus is on caring; Dorthea Orem's focus is on self-care4; and Madeline Leininger focuses on transcultural nursing.5 The problem with the adoption and implementation of a single nursing theory is that no 1 theory can apply to all aspects of nursing practice. Because theory use is dependent on one's worldview,5 "rigid application and preservation of nursing theories understandably have chilled nurses' appreciation for theories' role in practice."6(p426) This article will review the successful incorporation of a nursing practice framework that facilitated both meeting the Magnet(R) standard and creating a foundation where all nursing theories can be incorporated. - See more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/journalarticle?Article_ID=1172653#sthash.wDsW2KWc.dpuf