Theories Guiding Nursing Research and Practice

Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN, is Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She is also Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. In 1990, Dr. Fitzpatrick received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from her alma mater, Georgetown University. In 2011 she received an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Humane Letters, from the Frontier University of Nursing. She has received numerous honors and awards; she was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 1981 and a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice in 1996. She received the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award 18 times. Dr. Fitzpatrick is widely published in nursing and health care literature with over 300 publications. She served as co-editor of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series, vols. 1-26; she edits the journals Applied Nursing Research, Archives in Psychiatric Nursing, and Nursing Education Perspectives, the official journal of the National League for Nursing. She edited three editions of the classic Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (ENR), and a series of nursing research digestsGeraldine McCarthy, PhD, MSN, MEd, RNT, RGN, Fellow RCSI, is emeritus professor at the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery, University County Cork (UCC), Cork, Ireland, and chair of the South/South West Hospital Group, which comprises nine hospitals in the South of Ireland.

• ForewordPamela G. Reed PrefaceJoyce J. Fitzpatrick and Geraldine McCarthy Part 1: Introduction 1. The Discipline of NursingJoyce J. Fitzpatrick2. Extant Nursing Models and Theories: Grand and Middle Range Theories in NursingMary Quinn Griffin and Margaret Landers Part 2: Theories Applied to Research 3. Symptom Management TheoryMargaret Landers4. Transitions TheoryAlice Coffey5. Theory of Planned BehaviorNicola Cornally6. Social Support TheoryPatricia Leahy-Warren7. Health Action Process Approach TheoryElaine Lehane8. The Judgment to Delay ModelMairin O’Mahony9. Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold ModelMark Tyrrell10. Cultural Competence ModelKaren Bauce11. Interpersonal Relations TheoryJeffrey Jones12. Theory of Work EngagementMargaret O’Connor Murphy13. Sexuality in Women: Theoretical PerspectivesVickie Cleary, Aileen Burton, and Josephine Hegarty14. Acculturation TheoryEmerson EaPart 3: Theories Applied to Future Research and Practice 15. Story TheoryPatricia Prufeta16. Self-Transcendence TheoryJean Marie DiNapoli, Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, Leila Garcia-Ona, DeirdreO’Flaherty, and Jennifer Siller17. Caring TheoryCatrina Heffernan18. Transformational Leadership TheoryRobin Krinsky and Josiane Hickson19. Empowerment TheoryJean Marie DiNapoli, Deirdre O’Flaherty, and Mary Joy Garcia-Dia20. Theory of MeaningElizabeth Weathers and Margaret Murphy Part 4: Other Theory Dimensions21. Theory Underlying Nursing Intervention ResearchBernadette Melnyk and Dianne Morrison-Beedy22. Summary and Future DirectionsGeraldine McCarthy and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick