Mary Jane Smith
Publisher
Springer Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
3rd ed.
Description
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.
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
2nd ed.
Description
This textbook has been designed for theory and reseach courses in masters and doctoral programmes. As described in the 'Encyclopedia of Nursing Rsearch', middle range theory 'is a basic, usable structure of ideas, less abstract than grand theory and more abstract than empirical generalizations or micro-range theory'.
Publisher
Springer Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Fifth edition /
Appears on list
Description
The completely revised fifth edition of this authoritative text encompasses the most current middle range theories for graduate nursing students and researchers. User-friendly and consistently organised, it helps readers to understand the connection of research to larger conceptual models in nursing. The fifth edition presents three new theories, a revised chapter on concept-building, two published examples demonstrating the concept-building process,...