Description based upon print version of record. USE OF THE THEORY IN NURSING PRACTICE

Cover -- Half Title: Middle Range Theory for Nursing -- Author Bio -- BookTitle: Middle Range Theory for Nursing -- Copyright 2024 Springer Publishing Company, LLC -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Instructor Resources -- SECTION I Setting the Stage for Middle Range Theories -- Chapter 1: Disciplinary Perspectives Linked to Middle Range Theory -- INTRODUCTION -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: Understanding Middle Range Theory by Moving Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction -- INTRODUCTION -- PHILOSOPHICAL LEVEL -- THEORETICAL LEVEL EMPIRICAL LEVEL -- Caring in the Human Health Experience -- MIDDLE RANGE THEORIES ON THE LADDER OF ABSTRACTION -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: Evaluation of Middle Range Theories for the Discipline of Nursing -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PURPOSE OF THEORY EVALUATION: TOWARD A POSTMODERN VIEW -- The Origin of Evaluative Frameworks -- Applying the Framework to the Evaluation of Middle Range Theories -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- SECTION II Middle Range Theories Ready for Application -- Chapter 4: Theories of Uncertainty in Illness -- INTRODUCTION Purpose of the Theories and How They Were Developed -- Concepts of the Theories -- RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE CONCEPTS: THE MODELS -- USE OF THE UNCERTAINTY THEORIES -- RESEARCH USING THE reconceptualized uncertainty in illness theory -- INTERVENTIONS TO MANAGE UNCERTAINTY -- USE OF THE THEORIES IN NURSING PRACTICE -- CONCLUSION -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: Theory of Meaning -- INTRODUCTION -- PURPOSE OF THE THEORY AND HOW IT WAS DEVELOPED -- CONCEPTS OF THE THEORY -- RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE CONCEPTS: THE MODEL -- USE OF THE THEORY IN NURSING RESEARCH RESEARCH IN NURSING AND OTHER DISCIPLINES -- USE OF THE THEORY IN NURSING PRACTICE -- CONCLUSION -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6: Theory of Bureaucratic Caring -- INTRODUCTION -- PURPOSE OF THE THEORY AND HOW IT WAS DEVELOPED -- EVOLUTION OF THE THEORY OF BUREAUCRATIC CARING -- Concepts of the Theory -- RELATIONSHIP AMONG THE CONCEPTS: THE MODEL -- USE OF THE THEORY IN NURSING RESEARCH -- USE OF THE THEORY IN NURSING PRACTICE AND EDUCATION -- CONCLUSION -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7: Theory of Self-Transcendence -- INTRODUCTION PURPOSE OF THE THEORY AND HOW IT WAS DEVELOPED -- Concepts of the Theory -- RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE CONCEPTS: THE MODEL -- USE OF THE THEORY IN NURSING RESEARCH -- USE OF THE THEORY IN NURSING PRACTICE -- Intrapersonal Strategies -- Interpersonal Strategies -- Transpersonal Strategies -- SUMMARY -- CONCLUSION -- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8: Theory of Symptom Management -- INTRODUCTION -- PURPOSE OF THE THEORY AND HOW IT WAS DEVELOPED -- CONCEPTS OF THE THEORY -- SYMPTOM-SPECIFIC CONCEPTS -- RELATIONSHIPS AMONG SYMPTOM-SPECIFIC CONCEPTS IN THE MODEL