Praise for the Second Edition:
""Smith and Liehr's exposition on nursing theory enhances nursing science and clinical practice with 12 middle range nursing theories. The discussion format of each chapter helps the reader understand the theories and the comparisons among them. This user-friendly reference is a must-have for students as well as academic and clinical nurse scholars.""
--AJN Book of the Year Award review
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.
This third edition of a two-time AJN Book of the Year Award contains three new theories that include cultural self-reliance, caring, and unitary appreciative inquiry. It revises and updates all other content, and provides ladders of abstraction for each theory to guide students in their appropriate use. This highly accessible book integrates nursing theory with well-defined practice areas, identifies purpose and basic concepts, foundational literature, relationships among concepts, and use in practice. Chapters are organized by central theories, each of which is covered in depth. Comprehensive bibliographies at the end of each chapter facilitate more in-depth research. The book remains an essential text for theory and research courses in master's and doctoral nursing programs.
New to the Third Edition: - Presents three new theories that include cultural self-reliance, caring, and unitary appreciative inquiry
- Deletes two theories no longer in use-community empowerment and family stress/adaptation
- Updates and revises all other content from the second edition
- Guides students in appropriate use of theory per level of complexity
Mary Jane Smith, PhD, RN, earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and her doctorate from New York University. Her majors at the master's level include medical-surgical nursing and mental-health nursing; and nursing science while in the doctoral program. She has held faculty positions at the following nursing schools: University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, Cornell University-New York Hospital, and Ohio State University; and is currently Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Academic Affairs at West Virginia University School of Nursing. She has been teaching nursing theory to master's students for over 25 years.
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Patricia R. Liehr, PhD, ARNP, graduated from Ohio Valley Hospital, School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She completed her baccalaureate degree in nursing at Villa Maria College, her master's in family health nursing at Duquesne University, and her doctorate at the University of Maryland--Baltimore, School of Nursing, with an emphasis on psychophysiology. She did postdoctoral education at the University of Pennsylvania as a Robert Wood Johnson scholar. Dr. Liehr is currently professor and associate dean for nursing research and scholarship at Florida Atlantic University, where she has been since 2004. Prior to that she was a professor of nursing at the University of Texas--Houston Health Science Center, School of Nursing for 15 years
