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, USA, where she was Dean from 1982 through 1997. She is also Professor, Department of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. 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 digests. Geraldine McCarthy, PhD, RGN, is Emeritus Professor at the Catherine McAuley School of Nursing and Midwifery University College Cork, Ireland. She was Founding Head and Dean of the School which was established in 1996. From 2010-2011 she was Acting Head of College of Medicine and Health at UCC. She has been a member of a number of national and international bodies including the Nurse Education Forum, Task Force on Undergraduate Medical Education and was a Ministerial nominee to the Commission on Nursing, Health Information and Quality Authority and Fulbright Commission. Presently she is a member of the Advisory Board for the Reconfiguration of the Health Services in the Southern Region and Marymount Hospital Board. As Emeritus Professor Dr. McCarthy supervises PhD level research and leads and co-ordinates the Doctorate in Nursing program. She has also participated in EU Funded projects including one on developing leaders in Medicine in Slovakia and EU funded projects (FIRE and ELLAN) with colleagues from European countries on Facilitating Implementation of Research Evidence. She has published in excess of 130 original articles, edited seven books, authored/co-authored nine book chapters, and served on several editorial boards of nursing and health care journals. In 2013 she received an appointment from the Minister of Health for Ireland, to chair the South/South West Region Health Care Board, serving as the only nurse to chair one of six regional health boards.

Foreword




Pamela G. Reed









Preface




Joyce J. Fitzpatrick and Geraldine McCarthy









Part 1: Introduction









1. The Discipline of Nursing




Joyce J. Fitzpatrick




2. Extant Nursing Models and Theories: Grand and Middle Range Theories in Nursing




Mary Quinn Griffin and Margaret Landers









Part 2: Theories Applied to Research









3. Symptom Management Theory




Margaret Landers




4. Transitions Theory




Alice Coffey




5. Theory of Planned Behavior




Nicola Cornally




6. Social Support Theory




Patricia Leahy-Warren




7. Health Action Process Approach Theory




Elaine Lehane




8. The Judgment to Delay Model




Mairin O’Mahony




9. Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold Model




Mark Tyrrell




10. Cultural Competence Model




Karen Bauce




11. Interpersonal Relations Theory




Jeffrey Jones




12. Theory of Work Engagement




Margaret O’Connor Murphy




13. Sexuality in Women: Theoretical Perspectives




Vickie Cleary, Aileen Burton, and Josephine Hegarty




14. Acculturation Theory




Emerson Ea




Part 3: Theories Applied to Future Research and Practice









15. Story Theory




Patricia Prufeta




16. Self-Transcendence Theory




Jean Marie DiNapoli, Mary Joy Garcia-Dia, Leila Garcia-Ona, Deirdre




O’Flaherty, and Jennifer Siller




17. Caring Theory




Catrina Heffernan




18. Transformational Leadership Theory




Robin Krinsky and Josiane Hickson




19. Empowerment Theory




Jean Marie DiNapoli, Deirdre O’Flaherty, and Mary Joy Garcia-Dia




20. Theory of Meaning




Elizabeth Weathers and Margaret Murphy









Part 4: Other Theory Dimensions




21. Theory Underlying Nursing Intervention Research




Bernadette Melnyk and Dianne Morrison-Beedy




22. Summary and Future Directions




Geraldine McCarthy and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick