Theories guiding nursing research and practice : making nursing knowledge development explicit

Fitzpatrick, Joyce J., 1944- (editor.). McCarthy, Geraldine, 1950- (editor.).

Summary: This is the first book to clearly and fully demonstrate the process of using theory to guide nursing research and professional practice. It describes a step-by-step format for evaluating nursing theory's applicability to research, a format that links theory (both middle-range and grand theory) to research on a wide range of clinical populations and care delivery systems. The book describes how theory analysis models are used to examine various nursing phenomena as they relate to nursing research and professional practice, and provides key examples of how this is accomplished.

Record details

ISBN: 9780826164049 (print : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0826164048 (print : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780826164056 (e-book)
Physical Description: print
xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Publisher: New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2014]

Content descriptions

General Note:	New July 2015.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	pt. I INTRODUCTION -- 1. Discipline of Nursing / Joyce J. Fitzpatrick -- 2. Extant Nursing Models and Theories: Grand and Middle Range Theories in Nursing / Margaret G. Landers -- pt. II THEORIES APPLIED TO RESEARCH -- 3. Symptom Management Theory / Margaret G. Landers -- 4. Transitions Theory / Alice Coffey -- 5. Theory of Planned Behavior / Nicola Cornally -- 6. Social Support Theory / Patricia Leahy-Warren -- 7. Health Action Process Approach Theory / Elaine Lehane -- 8. Judgment to Delay Model / Mairin O'Mahony -- 9. Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold Model / Mark P. Tyrrell -- 10. Cultural Competence Model / Karen Bauce -- 11. Interpersonal Relations in Nursing Theory / Jeffrey S. Jones -- 12. Theory of Work Engagement / Margaret O'Connor Murphy -- 13. Sexuality in Women: Theoretical Perspectives / Josephine Hegarty -- 14. Acculturation Theory / Emerson E. Ea -- pt. III THEORIES APPLIED TO FUTURE RESEARCH AND PRACTICE -- 15. Story Theory / Patricia Prufeta -- 16. Self-Transcendence Theory / Jennifer Siller -- 17. Theory of Human Caring / Catrina Heffernan -- 18. Transformational Leadership / Josiane Hickson -- 19. Theory of Empowerment / Mary Joy Garcia-Dia -- 20. Theory of Meaning / Margaret Murphy -- pt. IV OTHER THEORY DIMENSIONS -- 21. Theory Underlying Nursing Intervention Research / Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk -- 22. Summary and Future Directions / Joyce J. Fitzpatrick -- Index.