Grand Theories, Middle-Range Theories and Practice-Level Theories — beautifully illustrated, with diagrams, model figures and nursing-practice examples across Fundamentals, Administration and Pediatric Nursing.
Grand Theories: Nightingale's Environment, Henderson's Need Theory, Abdellah's 21 Nursing Problems, Johnson's Behavioral System, Orem's Self-Care Deficit, Rogers's Unitary Human Beings, Neuman's Systems Model, Roy's Adaptation Model, Watson's Science of Caring, Leininger's Transcultural Nursing, Newman's Health as Expanding Consciousness.
Middle-Range and Borrowed: Peplau's Interpersonal Relations, Orlando's Nursing Process, King's Goal Attainment, Pender's Health Promotion Model, Health Belief Model, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Erikson's Psychosocial Stages applied to nursing.
Practice-Level: Comfort, pain management, wound care.
Example from the manual: Using Orem's Self-Care Deficit theory, the nurse finds that a newly diagnosed diabetic patient can use his hands well but does not know how to inject insulin. The deficit is knowledge and skill, so she chooses the supportive-educative system: demonstrate, let him return-demonstrate and involve his family.
Classical and Behavioural: Taylor's Scientific Management, Fayol's Administrative Management and POSDCORB, Weber's Bureaucracy, Mayo's Human Relations, Maslow applied to staff, McGregor's Theory X and Y, Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory.
Modern Approaches: Contingency Theory, Bertalanffy's Systems Theory, Chaos Theory.
Middle-Range: Transformational Leadership, Shared Governance, Magnet Hospital Model.
Nursing Models in Administration: Nightingale, Watson's culture of caring, Roy's adaptive unit.
Practice-Level: Staff scheduling, SBAR handover, nurse-patient ratio models, delegation framework, conflict resolution.
Example from the manual: Hand-hygiene compliance in a neonatal unit is low. Using Transformational Leadership, the nurse in charge models the behaviour herself, shares the goal of zero infection, adopts a staff nurse's idea of bedside hand-rub holders and coaches new nurses one to one.
Grand and Developmental Theories: Bowlby's Attachment Theory, Erikson's Psychosocial Development applied to children, Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory, Piaget's Cognitive Development.
Middle-Range: Family-Centered Care Theory, Kolcaba's Comfort Theory for Children.
Practice-Level: Pain assessment with the FLACC scale and guidance on faces and numeric scales, atraumatic care, growth & development milestones, immunization counselling, play therapy.
Example from the manual: A 6-year-old needs a daily burn dressing. Comfort Theory guides the nurse to give the prescribed analgesic 30 minutes before, keep his mother beside him, play his favourite cartoon and let him ask for a short rest. He resists less and the dressing takes less time.