Middle Range Theory for Nursing: Third Edition

by Mary Jane Smith PhD, RN, FAAN (Editor), Patricia R. Liehr PhD, RN (Editor)

Overview

Awarded first place in the 2013 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Nursing Research category

"This is an outstanding edition of this book. It has great relevance for learning about, developing, and using middle range theories. It is very user friendly, yet scholarly." Score: 90, 4 Stars.--Doody's Medical Reviews

Middle range theory has become a vital staple of nursing education and application to research. These theories, which lie between the working hypotheses derived from day-to-day research and the larger, systemic efforts to develop unified theories, cover the scientific underpinnings that guide nursing practice and research.

This third edition of a two-time AJN Book of the Year Award winner contains two new theories, including self-reliance theory and transitions theory. It revises and updates all other content, and provides ladders of abstraction for each theory to guide students in their appropriate use. This highly accessible book integrates nursing theory with well-defined practice areas, identifies purpose and basic concepts, foundational literature, relationships among concepts, and use in practice. Chapters are organized by central theories, each of which is covered in depth. Comprehensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter facilitate more in-depth research. The book remains an essential text for theory and research courses in master's and doctoral nursing programs.

New to the Third Edition:

• Presents two new theories: self-reliance theory and transitions theory
• Deletes two theories no longer in use: community empowerment and family stress/adaptation
• Updates and revises all other content from the second edition
• Guides students in appropriate use of theory per level of complexity

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826195524
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	05/15/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Mary Jane Smith, PhD, RN, FAAN, earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from University of Pittsburgh and her doctorate from New York University. She has held faculty positions at the following nursing schools: University of Pittsburg, Duquesne University, Cornell University-New York Hospital, and The Ohio State University. Currently, Dr. Smith is a professor of nursing at West Virginia University School of Nursing; she has been teaching theory to master's and doctoral nursing students for over 4 decades.

Patricia R. Liehr, PhD, RN, graduated from Ohio Valley Hospital, School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She completed her bachelor's degree in nursing at Villa Maria College, her master's in family health nursing at Duquesne University and her doctorate at the School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore. She did postdoctoral education at the University of Pennsylvania as a Robert Wood Johnson scholar. Currently, Dr. Liehr is a professor emerita of nursing at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University; she has taught nursing theory to master's and doctoral students for over 3 decades.

Table of Contents

Section One: Setting the Stage for Middle Range Theories

1 Disciplinary Perspectives Linked to Middle Range Theory

2 Understanding Middle Range Theory by Moving Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction

3 Evaluation of Middle Range Theories for the Discipline of Nursing

Section Two: Middle Range Theories Ready for Application

4 Theories of Uncertainty in Illness

5 Theory of Meaning

6 Theory of Self-Transcendence

7 Theory of Symptom Management

8 Theory of Unpleasant Symptoms

9 Theory of Self-Efficacy

10 Story Theory

11 Theory of Transitions

12 Theory of Self-Reliance

13 Theory of Cultural Marginality

14 Theory of Caregiving Dynamics

15 Theory of Moral Reckoning

Section Three: Concept Building for Research ñ Through the Lens of Middle Range Theory

16 Concept Building for Research

17 Yearning for Sleep While Enduring Distress

18 Reconceptualizing Normal

19 Yearning to be Recognized: From Concept Building to Proposal Development to Data Gathering and Analysis

20 Catastrophic Cultural Immersion: From Concept Building to Proposal Development to Data Gathering and Analysis

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Martha Scheckel, PhD, RN (The Catholic University of America)
Description: This book contains an excellent array of middle range theories and descriptions of the relevance of these theories for nursing practice, research, and education. The previous edition, published in 2009, received an AJN Book of the Year Award.
Purpose: The purpose is to explain the significance of middle range theory development, describe middle range theories, and detail a concept building approach through practice stories. The editors, with this clearly organized book, accomplish their purpose, providing relevant and timely information about middle range theories.
Audience: The book is intended for nurses, undergraduate and graduate nursing students, nursing researchers, and nursing educators. The authors are well versed in middle range theories, possessing a wealth of knowledge and expertise to provide a quality source of information about this topic.
Features: The first of the book's three sections is a meta-perspective of middle range theories, providing readers with a broad understanding of these theories for nursing practice. The second section provides a wide array of middle range theories. Using a consistent format, the chapters in this section describe the middle range theories. This section also presents two new and important theories about self-reliance and transitions. The third section uses actual nursing practice stories in a novel approach to concept development. A continued unique feature is the table at the end of the book summarizing middle range theories from 1988-2012.
Assessment: This is an outstanding edition of this book. It has great relevance for learning about, developing, and using middle range theories. It is very user friendly, yet scholarly, which will appeal to readers.

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