Theories guiding nursing research and practice : making nursing knowledge development explicit / Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, Geraldine McCarthy, editors.

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)...

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Other Authors: Fitzpatrick, Joyce J., 1944- (Editor), McCarthy, Geraldine, 1950- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • The discipline of nursing / Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
  • Extant nursing models and theories : grand and middle range theories in nursing / Mary Quinn Griffin and Margaret Landers
  • Symptom management theory / Margaret Landers
  • Transitions theory / Alice Coffey
  • Theory of planned behavior / Nicola Cornally
  • Social support theory / Patricia Leahy-Warren
  • Health action process approach theory / Elaine Lehane
  • The judgment to delay model / Mairin O'Mahony
  • Progressive lowering stress threshold model / Mark Tyrrell
  • Cultural competence model / Karen Bauce
  • Interpersonal relations theory / Jeffrey Jones
  • Theory of work engagement / Margaret O'Connor Murphy
  • Sexuality in women : theoretical perspectives / Vickie Cleary, Aileen Burton, and Josephine Hegarty
  • Acculturation theory / Emerson Ea
  • Story theory / Patricia Prufeta
  • Self-transcendence theory / Jean Marie DiNapoli, Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, Leila Garcia-Ona, Deirdre O'Flaherty, and Jennifer Siller
  • Caring theory / Catrina Heffernan
  • Transformational leadership theory / Robin Krinsky and Josiane Hickson
  • Empowerment theory / Jean Marie DiNapoli, Deirdre O'Flaherty, and Mary Joy Garcia-Dia
  • Theory of meaning / Elizabeth Weathers and Margaret Murphy
  • Theory underlying nursing intervention research / Bernadette Melnyk and Dianne Morrison-Beedy
  • Summary and future directions / Geraldine McCarthy and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick.