NURS - 8110 Theoretical and Scientific Foundations for Nursing Practice

NURS - 8110 Theoretical and Scientific Foundations for Nursing Practice MIDDLE RANGE THEORY OF INTERDISCIPLINARY THEORY 2 Middle Range or Interdisciplinary Theory Evaluation Nurse researchers have widely used middle range theories from the 1970s. The simplicity and the fewer concepts of the middle range theories encourage the researchers to apply them in the research. A middle range theory can emerge from the nursing practice or research, from combining the literature, and can also be developed from grand theories (McEwen & Wills, 2014). Interdisciplinary theories from sociologic sciences, behavioral sciences, and biomedical theories can also be used in nursing research (McEwen & Wills, 2014). The relevant theories that are selected for any research study or application in the nursing practice must be evaluated for the effectiveness (Fawcett & Garity, 2009). This assignment will help me as a doctoral student to learn how to evaluate the middle range theory or interdisciplinary theory for utilizing them in the nursing research. Practice Problem Uncontrolled type 2 Diabetes Mellitus leads to various complications that could be short term or long term. In my workplace, there are many patients admitted with chronic disease conditions. Their socio-economic status is low and has poor literacy. Most of the patients are Hispanic. There is an increased number of readmissions among these patients. The readmissions escalate the health care cost and reduce the reimbursements to the hospital. I would like to conduct research about the impact of health literacy in improving the self-care in patients with type 2 diabetes which will help in minimizing the readmissions. There is rich evidence that the patients will be engaged in the self-care activities if they have adequate health literacy and it will lead to effective glycemic control (Protheroe, Rowlands, Bartlam, & Levin-Zamir, 2017). Poor health literacy about diabetes will lead to poor glycemic