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Types of Nursing Theories

The document discusses three types of nursing theories: grand nursing theories, mid-range nursing theories, and nursing practice theories. Grand nursing theories have the broadest scope but are not designed for empirical testing. Mid-range nursing theories are narrower in scope and provide a bridge between grand theories and practice. Nursing practice theories have the most limited scope and are developed for specific nursing situations.

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Types of Nursing Theories

The document discusses three types of nursing theories: grand nursing theories, mid-range nursing theories, and nursing practice theories. Grand nursing theories have the broadest scope but are not designed for empirical testing. Mid-range nursing theories are narrower in scope and provide a bridge between grand theories and practice. Nursing practice theories have the most limited scope and are developed for specific nursing situations.

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Types of nursing theories [1]

Grand nursing theories


Grand nursing theories have the broadest scope and present general concepts and propositions. Theories at this level may both reflect and provide insights useful for practice but are not designed for empirical testing. This limits the use of grand nursing theories for directing, explaining, and predicting nursing in particular situations. Theories at this level are intended to be pertinent to all instances of nursing.

Mid-range nursing theories


Middle-range nursing theories are narrower in scope than grand nursing theories and offer an effective bridge between grand nursing theories and nursing practice. They present concepts and propositions at a lower level of abstraction and hold great promise for increasing theory-based research and nursing practice strategies.

Nursing practice theories


Nursing practice theories have the most limited scope and level of abstraction and are developed for use within a specific range of nursing situations. Nursing practice theories provide frameworks for nursing interventions, and predict outcomes and the impact of nursing practice.

Major nursing theorists and theories


Helen Erickson Carl O. Helvie - Helvie Energy Theory Virginia Henderson - Henderson's need theory Imogene King Madeleine Leininger Betty Neuman - Neuman systems model Margaret A. Newman - Health as expanding consciousness theory Dorothea Orem - Self-care deficit nursing theory Ida Jean Orlando (Pelletier) Ramona T Mercer - Maternal role attainment theory Anne Casey - Casey's model of nursing Hildegard Peplau - Theory of interpersonal relations Rosemarie Rizzo-Parse - Human becoming theory Isabel Hampton Robb Nancy Roper, Winifred W. Logan, and Alison J. Tierney - Roper-Logan-Tierney model of nursing Martha E. Rogers - Science of unitary human beings Callista Roy - Adaptation model of nursing Katharine Kolcaba Phil Barker - Tidal Model

Moyra Allen - McGill model of nursing Erickson, Tomlin & Swain - Modeling and Role-Modeling Katie Eriksson Dr. Jean Watson Paterson & Zderad Boykin & Schoenhofer

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