Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice

by Smith, Marlaine C.

• ISBN13: 9781719649896
• ISBN10: 1719649898
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-02-04
• Publisher: F.A. Davis Company

Summary

What is nursing?
Noted nursing scholars explore the historical and contemporary theories that are the foundation of nursing practice today. The only nursing research and theory book with primary works by the original theorists, the 6th Edition focuses on the relevant, need-to-know content that links theory to clinical practice. Students explore the role of these theories in the real-world to see how they guide nursing practice.
 

• New! AACN Essentials #1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice integrated throughout
• New! Emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion, including the addition of “Point of Reflection’ boxes, and three new middle range theory chapters, John Lowe’s Theory of Native Reliance,Mona Wicks’s Family Health Model, and Peggy Chinn’s Philosophy, Theory, and Practice of Peace and Power
• New! Answers to Case Study Reflective Questions posted online for instructors
• Updated & Revised! Reorganized to focus on practice-relevant and need-to-know content
• Updated! Practice exemplars in select chapters that illustrate how to apply theory to practice

• Presents 25 major theories written by the original theorists or eminent scholars to help students understand the interrelationship between nursing theories and nursing practice.
• Covers the middle range theories and practice models that define the best outcomes and links theory to clinical practice.
• Addresses how to implement theory-based practice.
• Explores the historical and contemporary theories that are the foundation of nursing practice today.
• Features in-depth coverage of the development of the theories that guide nursing practice.
• Includes questions to guide reflection and discussion at the end of each chapter.

 

Table of Contents

I.An Introduction to Nursing Theory
1.Nursing Theory and the Discipline of Nursing
2.A Guide for Theory-Informed Education and Practice
II.Conceptual Influences on the Evolution of Nursing
3.Florence Nightingale's Conceptualizations of Nursing
4.Early Conceptualizations About Nursing
III.Conceptual Models/Grand Theories in the Integrative-Interactive Paradigm
5.Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory
6.Imogene King's Conceptual System and Theory of Goal Attainment
7.Callista Roy's Adaptation Model
8.Betty Neuman's Systems Model
9.Helen Erickson, Evelyn Tomlin, and Mary Ann Swain's Theory of Modeling and Role Modeling
10.Barbara Dossey's Theory of Integral Nursing
11.Madeleine Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
12.Boykin and Schoenhofer’s Theory of Nursing as Caring
IV.Conceptual Models/Grand Theories in the Unitary-Transformative Paradigm
13.Martha E. Rogers’s Science of Unitary Human Beings
14.Rosemarie Rizzo Parse’s Humanbecoming Paradigm
15.Margaret Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
16.Jean Watson’s Unitary Caring Science and Transpersonal Theory of Human Caring
V.Middle-Range Theories
17.Afaf Meleis’s Transitions Theory
18.Katharine Kolcaba's Comfort Theory
19.Joanne Duffy's Quality-Caring Model
20.Pamela Reed's Theory of Self-Transcendence
21.Patricia Liehr and Mary Jane Smith's Story Theory
22.Marilyn Ray’s Theory of Bureaucratic Caring
23.Rozzano Locsin's Theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing
24.Elizabeth Ann Manhart Barrett’s Theory of Power as Knowing Participation in Change
25.Marlaine Smith's Theory of Unitary Caring
26.Kristen Swanson's Theory of Caring
27.Adeline Falk-Rafael’s Critical Caring Theory
28.Marilyn Parker, Charlotte Barry, and Beth King’s Community Nursing Practice Model
29.John Lowe’s Theory of Native Self-Reliance
30.Mona Wicks’s Family Health Model
31.Peggy Chinn’s Peace and Power: Philosophy, Theory, and Practice