Author – Callista Roy PhD, RN, FAAN
Year First Published – 2014
Major Concepts
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Overview of Processes for Creating Knowledge for Practice
Chapter 2 Processes for Description and Critical Analysis of Research
Chapter 3 Qualitative Studies
Chapter 4 Quantitative Studies—Descriptive Designs
Chapter 5 Quantitative Studies—Explaining, Predicting, and Prescribing Designs
Chapter 6 Quantitative Studies—Intervention Designs
Chapter 7 Instruments Used in Research to Measure Concepts of the Common Framework
Part III Middle Range Theories Derived from Research
Chapter 8 Synthesis of Middle Range Theory of Coping
Chapter 9 Synthesis of Middle Range Theory of Adapting to Life Events
Chapter 10 Synthesis of Middle range Theories of Adapting to Loss
Chapter 11 Synthesis of Middle Range Theories of Adapting to Chronic Health Conditions
Chapter 12 Synthesis of Middle Range Theories of Adapting to Traumatic Events
Part IV Evidence Based Practice: Re-Defined and Exemplified
Chapter 13 Evidence-Based Practice based on the Levels of Readiness for Practice
Chapter 14 Meta-analysis of Intervention Studies
Part V Roy Adaptation Model-based Research Globally
Chapter 15 Review of Roy Adaptation Model-Based Research Globally
Brief Description
Step by step, the text identifies and critiques research suited for developing cumulative knowledge for practice and uses the research to develop middle-range theories that apply across all health care settings. It then presents the evidence for practice for each middle range theory, refocuses EBP within nursing knowledge and within defined levels of readiness for practice, and recommends changes for practice based on evidence. Grounded in the Roy Adaptation Model of Nursing, the book provides a single conceptual basis for synthesis of research into middle range theories for use across all patient populations. It clarifies ways to select research from one conceptual basis to build middle-range theories, how to classify evidence for practice by levels of readiness, and recommend research-based changes in practice. The text includes quantitative and qualitative research designs and offers instruments to measure major concepts for implementation. Also included are plentiful examples, tables that display values across studies, definitions of major terms and concepts, and diagrams of concepts. Supplementing the text is a faculty guide for using the text to teach critical thinking at multiple graduate levels and videos illuminating each section of the book.
Key Features:
- Explains clearly how middle-range theories grow from research
- Designed for implementation in practice
- Uses Roy’s five core “adaptation” contexts as organizing themes: coping, changing life events, loss, chronic health condition, and traumatic events
- Constitutes a seminal work from a pre-eminent nursing theorist and educator
- Includes faculty guide and videos elucidating each section of the book
Book Editions
Roy, C. (2014). Generating Middle Range Theory: From Evidence to Practice. Springer Publishing Company.
Author
Sister Callista Roy
Member, Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet
Education
BS (1963) Mount Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
MS in Nursing (1966) University of California, Los Angeles
MS in Sociology (1973) and PhD in Sociology (1977), University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholar (1983-1985), University of California, San Francisco
Honorary doctorates from Alverno College, Eastern Michigan University, and St. Joseph’s College in Maine
Experience
- Staff nurse in pediatrics
- Faculty and administrations positions, Mount Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
- Faculty positions at University of Portland and Boston College
(from Phillips, K. D. (2010). Adaptation model. In M.R. Alligood & A. M. Tomey (Eds.) Nursing theorists and their work (7th ed., pp. 335-365). St. Louis, MO: Mosby Elsevier.