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Awarded first place in the 2023 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Nursing Research.
Three-time recipient of the AJN Book of the Year Award!
The completely revised fifth edition of this authoritative text encompasses the most current middle range theories for graduate nursing students and researchers. User-friendly and consistently organized, it helps readers to understand the connection of research to larger conceptual models in nursing. The fifth edition presents three new theories, a revised chapter on concept-building, two published examples demonstrating the concept-building process, and a new section on the application of middle range theory that addresses its use for practice, and education. Additional new features include the fresh perspectives of a third editor, a two-color design to enhance readability, and discussion questions concluding each chapter.
The text describes sixteen middle range theories and elaborates on disciplinary perspectives, providing an organizing framework and evaluating the theory. Each theory is consistently organized by purpose, historical development, primary concepts, the relationships among concepts, and its use in nursing practice and research. Understanding of concepts is enhanced by the book's use of the ladder of abstraction for each theory to explain its relationship to philosophical, conceptual, and empirical theory dimensions.
New to the Fifth Edition:
Includes three new theories—Inner Strength, Unitary Caring, and Nature Immersion—for a total of 16 theories
A completely new section on application of theory to practice
New chapter on application of middle range theory to education
Extensively revised chapter on building concepts for research
Two-color design to enhance readability
Discussion questions at the end of each chapter to promote class dialogue
Nine practice examples relating to application of middle range theory
The expertise of a new editor
Key Features:
Delivers theories in consistent format to facilitate comparisons
Presents published exemplars demonstrating concept building
User-friendly and consistently organized
Summarizes middle range theories developed between 1988 and 2020
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgement
PART I: SETTING THE STAGE FOR MIDDLE RANGE THEORIES
Chapter 1. Disciplinary Perspectives Linked to Middle Range Theory
Chapter 2. Understanding Middle Range Theory by Moving Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
Chapter 3. Evaluation of Middle Range Theories for the Discipline of Nursing
PART II: MIDDLE RANGE THEORIES READY FOR APPLICATION
Chapter 4. Theories of Uncertainty in Illness
Chapter 5. Theory of Meaning
Chapter 6. Theory of Bureaucratic Caring
Chapter 7. Theory of Self-Transcendence
Chapter 8. Theory of Symptom Management
Chapter 9. Theory of Unpleasant Symptoms
Chapter 10. Theory of Self-Efficacy
Chapter 11. Story Theory
Chapter 12. Theory of Unitary Caring
Chapter 13. Theory of Transitions
Chapter 14. Theory of Self-Reliance
Chapter 15. Theory of Cultural Marginality
Chapter 16. Theory of Inner Strength
Chapter 17. Theory of Moral Reckoning
Chapter 18. Theory of Self-Care of Chronic Illness
Chapter 19. Theory of Nature Immersion
PART III: APPLICATION OF MIDDLE RANGE THEORY: RESEARCH
Chapter 20. Concept Building for Research
Building the Concept of Nurturing Resilience
Transforming Loss: A Developing Concept for Nursing
PART IV: APPLICATION OF MIDDLE RANGE THEORY: PRACTICE AND EDUCATION
Chapter 21. Application of Middle Range Theory: Practice
Exemplar 1: The Theory of Meaning
Exemplar 2: Bureaucratic Caring Theory
Exemplar 3: Theory of Self-Transcendence
Exemplar 4: Symptom Management Theory
Exemplar 5: Unpleasant Symptoms Theory
Exemplar 6: Story Theory
Exemplar 7: Transition Theory
Exemplar 8: Self-Reliance Theory
Exemplar 9: Self-Care of Chronic Illness Theory
Chapter 22. Application of Middle Range Theory: Education
Appendix: Published Middle Range Theories 1988-2022
