Theories guiding nursing research and practice : making nursing knowledge development explicit / Fitzpatrick, Joyce J, McCarthy, Geraldine. [Editors] [electronic resource] :

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theories guiding nursing research and practice : making nursing knowledge development explicit -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Discipline of Nursing -- Chapter 2. Extant Nursing Models and Theories: Grand and Middle Range Theories in Nursing -- Part II: Theories Applied to Research -- Chapter 3. Symptom Management Theory -- Chapter 4. Transitions Theory -- Chapter 5. Theory of Planned Behavior -- Chapter 6. Social Support Theory -- Chapter 7. The Health Action Process Approach Theory -- Chapter 8. The Judgment to Delay Model -- Chapter 9. The Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold Model -- Chapter 10. Cultural Competence Model -- Chapter 11. Interpersonal Relations in Nursing -- Chapter 12. Theory of Work Engagement -- Chapter 13. Sexuality in Women: Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 14. Acculturation Theory -- Part III: Theories Applied to Future Research and Practice -- Chapter 15. Story Theory -- Chapter 16. Self-Transcendence Theory -- Chapter 17. Theory of Human Caring -- Chapter 18. Transformational Leadership -- Chapter 19. Theory of Empowerment -- Chapter 20. Theory of Meaning -- Part IV: Other Theory Dimensions -- Chapter 21. Theory Underlying Nursing Intervention Research -- Chapter 22. Summary and Future Directions -- Index.

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.