Middle Range Theory

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Middle Range Theory
Theorist/s
Idea
Application
Acute Pain Management (Adults)

Goode & Moore
Complementary Nursing Therapies for Pain and Stress: Relaxation and Music for Postoperative Pain; Stress and Immunity; and Integrated Research Reviews.
CHANGE study
Great Lakes GIT
Provide clinicians with prescriptions for pain reduction and a conceptual basis for pain interventions.
Acute Pain Management (Children)
Huth & Moore
Assist nurses in managing clinical pain and to expand the knowledge and research base in children's pain.
Escape Artists
Provide clinicians with prescriptions for pain reduction and a conceptual basis for pain interventions.
Adaptation to Chronic Pain
Dunn, K
Influenced by Roy’s adaptation model.
Karen S Dunn
Adaptation leads to coping skills.
Advancing Technology, Caring and Nursing
Locsin, R
Focuses on wholeness of person, as influenced by technology.
Advancing technology, caring, and nursing
Examines contemporary technology in mainstream health care and its impact on the quality of that care.
Attentively Embracing Story
Liehr & Smith
Connecting with self-in-relation through intentional dialogue to create ease.
Attentively Embracing Story
Patient-centered dialogue as a means to finding solace.
Behavioral systems and nursing
Auger, J
Provides framework for organizing observations of patient behavior, increasing consistency and continuity of care.
A Patient classification system based on the behavioral system model of nursing
Increase interdisciplinary communication in healthcare.
Caregiver Effectiveness Model
Smith et al.
Influenced by Roy. Identifies factors that influence patient and caregiver outcomes when technology is present.
The Efficiency of Families Providing Ventilator Care at Home
Promotes proactive intervention for increasing quality of life.
Caring Theory
Watson, J
Grounded in a relational