Discussion Question: Grand, Mid-Range, or Situation-Specific Theories
Calvin Lewis is a 20-year-old African American male who comes to your clinic for the first time complaining of asthma-type symptoms. Describe grand, mid-range, and situation specific theory. Identify Calvin’s current health problem area and select one mid-range or situation-specific nursing theory that is congruent with the care of Calvin as presented in the media piece on asthma. Include rationale of how the selected mid-range theory or situation-specific theory fits based on the problems identified. Introduce a research source article of your choosing in the discussion that either uses the theory congruent with his care or one which could easily apply to this theory. Explain why. What theory level do you believe is most useful for advanced practice in the 21st century and why?
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Calvin Lewis is a 20-year-old African American male who comes to your clinic for the first time complaining of asthma-type symptoms.
Describe grand, mid-range, and situation specific theory. Identify Calvin’s current health problem area and select one mid-range or situation-specific nursing theory that is congruent with the care of Calvin as presented in the media piece on asthma. Include rationale of how the selected mid-range theory or situation-specific theory fits based on the problems identified. Introduce a research source article of your choosing in the discussion that either uses the theory congruent with his care or one which could easily apply to this theory. Explain why. What theory level do you believe is most useful for advanced practice in the 21st century and why?
Grand theories are essentially a conceptual framework, with broad definition of perspectives or viewpoints about nursing practice. The main emphasis of grand theories is a global perspective, with a wide viewpoint of nursing. Thus, grand theories have a very wide, but limited abstract compared to conceptual models (Meleis, 2018). Middle range theories are founded on the grand theory. Mid-range theories hence have narrower scope than grand theories, are less abstract but explicit and testable. As a result, mid-range theories area easy to operationalize and apply in nursing practice compared to grand nursing theories (Chinn & Kramer, 2013).
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