LibGuides: Nursing Theories: Middle Range Theories A-Z

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Nursing theorists and their work
Call Number: GENERAL COLL (3rd fl) - RT84.5 .W367 2007 -

ISBN: 0323030106

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Selected Nursing Theory E-books

Search the library catalog for more E-Books and books at the library. To locate E-Books only, conduct search
and limit by selecting the E-Books format link (found on left of search results display). Here is a selected list. The first few cover middle range theories. These might help you identify a theory.

About Middle Range Theories
Includes a bibliography of original MR Theories
Transitions Theory: Middle Range...
Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice

What is a middle range theory?

What is a Middle Range Theory?
From Dr. Sally Decker, April 2018:

"To be a middle range theory it has to focus on just the concept (not all of nursing) and will usually have the name of the concept within the title of the theory. The theory/model/framework (I use all three search terms for theory) needs to relate to the concept and not the intervention to "fix" the concept"

Middle Range Nursing Theories by Title (A to Z)

-Acute Pain Management Theory (Good)
-Adaptation to chronic illness model (diabetes-Whittemore)
-Attentively Embracing Story: A Middle-Range Theory With Practice and Research Implications
-Client Experience Model (CEM) (middle range theory)
-Comfort Care: A Framework for Hospice Nursing (Vendlinski & Kolcaba)
The purpose of this article is to describe a theory of comfort care that offers definitions and a grid for the art of comfort care that are relevant to hospice nursing practice
Keywords: Hospice Nursing,Holistic Care, Comfort, End of life
-Comfort Theory (Kolcaba)
Comfort Care is defined as a philosophy of health care that focuses on addressing comfort needs recipients in four contexts: physical (including homeostatic mechanisms as well as sensations related to medical problems), psychospiritual, sociocultural, and environmental.
Keywords: Comfort, Holistic Care

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https://www.thecomfortline.com/
-Emancipatory Theory of Compassion (Georges)
See OVID Library Database. Search by Titile.
Compassion, defined as the wish that all others be free of suffering, is absolutely necessary for emancipatory nursing practice and praxis. “Emancipatory” is used to emphasize the centrality that power relations have on suffering, and the ability to render compassion impossible.
-Experiencing Transitions: An emerging middle range theory (Meleis)
-Nursing in hypertension care (middle range theory)
-Relationship-Based Model for Psychiatric Nursing Practice (middle range theory)
This model has the potential to serve as a practice framework for psychiatric nursing, for all levels of psychiatric nursing practice. (Keywords: mental illness; neurophysiology; psychotherapy; Attachment)
-Self-care theory in nursing: selected papers of Dorothea Orem
-Self Care of Chronic Illness (Riegel)
Search by title in the OVID Library database.

This article describes a middle-range theory of self-care that addresses the process of maintaining health with health promoting practices within the context of the management required of a chronic illness. Factors influencing self-care including experience, skill, motivation, culture, confidence, habits, function, cognition, support from others, and access to care are described

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Alternate Link:https://journals.lww.com/advancesinnursingscience/Fulltext/2012/07000/A_Middle_Range_Theory_of_Self_Care_of_Chronic.3.aspx
-Story Theory in Nursing (Smith & Liehr)
Story theory is a middle-range nursing theory that describes story as a narrative happening of connecting with self-in-relation through intentional nurse-person dialogue to create ease.10 It is a dynamic process in which the storyteller attentively embraces the story as it surfaces.
-Successful Aging
-Theory of Chronic Sorrow
This middle-range theory defines the aspect of chronic sorrow as a normal response to the ongoing disparity created by the loss.“Chronic sorrow is the presence of pervasive grief-related feelings that have been found to occur periodically throughout the lives of individuals with chronic health conditions, their family caregivers and the bereaved.”
Keywords- grief, mourn; loss; chronic sorrow.
-Theory of interpersonal relations (Peplau)
-Theory of Self-Transcendence (Reed)
-The Quality-Caring Model
-Toward a Middle-Range Theory of Weight Management
-Toward a Theory of Resilience (Polk)
Ray's Theory of Bureaucratic Caring (if your focus is administration)
ILL at https://svsulibrary.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,uid&db=ccm&AN=107530729&site=eds-live&scope=site
Mercer's Maternal Role Attainment ILL
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Benner's Novice to Expert
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Middle Range Theories

Middle Range Theories
List and source citation for original theory provided

examples of middle range theories:

-Barker's Tidal Model (middle range theory)
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/svsu/detail.action?docID=199786

-Good and Moore's pain management theory
https://www.nursingoutlook.org/article/S0029-6554(98)90038-0/pdf

-Levesque et al- Psychological Adaptation Theory
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0894318411419212

-Levine's Conservation Principles

LoBiondo-WooWood's theory of family stress and adaptation

-Mishel's theory of uncertainty in illness

-Orlando's theory of deliberative nursing

-Peplau's theory of interpersonal relations

Toward a Theory of Diversity of Human Field Pattern (middle range theory)
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=23644486&site=ehost-live

-Watson's theory of deliberative of human caring

Whittemore's adaptation to chronic illness model

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/089431802236796

Nursing in hypertension care (middle range theory)
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=128130608&site=ehost-live

A Relationship-Based Model for Psychiatric Nursing Practice (middle range theory)
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hch&AN=61809162&site=ehost-live

Comfort Care: A Framework for Hospice Nursing
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13836801_Comfort_care_A_framework_for_hospice_nursing