This essay focuses on various types of literature reviews, including scoping reviews, realist reviews, and integrative reviews. As contributions to understanding the state of nursing science about a particular topic, each literature review should be but rarely is guided by a nursing conceptual model, and the research findings should be but rarely are interpreted as theories that were generated or tested. Examples that are exceptions to usual literature reviews are given.
BishM.KennyA.CertG.NayR. (2012). A scoping review identifying contemporary issues in rural nursing leadership. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 44, 411-417.
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BlowsE.BirdL.SeymourJ.CoxK. (2012). Liminality as a framework for understanding the experience of cancer survivorship: A literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 68, 2155-2164.
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Boston-Based Adaptation Research in Nursing Society (1999). Roy adaptation model-based research: 25 years of contributions to nursing science. Indianapolis: Sigma Theta Tau International Center Nursing Press.
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ChiouC-P. (2000). A meta-analysis of the interrelationships between the modes in Roy’s adaptation model. Nursing Science Quarterly, 13, 252–258.
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DoucetT. J.BournesD. A. (2007). Review of research related to Parse’s theory of human becoming. Nursing Science Quarterly, 20, 16-33.
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FlemingK. (2010). Synthesis of quantitative and qualitative research: An example using critical interpretive synthesis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 66, 201-207.
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HoareK. J.MillsJ.FrancisK. (2012). The role of government policy in supporting nurse-led care in general practice in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia: An adapted realist review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 68, 963-980.
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LugasiT.AchilleM.StevensonM. (2011). Patients’ perspective on factors that facilitate transition from child-centered to adult-centered health care: A theory integrated metasummary of quantitative and qualitative studies. Journal of Adolescent Health, 48, 429-440.
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NeumanB.FawcettJ. (Eds.). (2002). The Neuman systems model (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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PerryL.HamiltonS.WilliamsJ.JonesS. (2012). Nursing interventions for improving nutritional status and outcomes of stroke patients: Descriptive reviews of processes and outcomes. World Views on Evidence-Based Nursing Care: Linking Evidence to Action, 10(1), 17-40.
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PopperK. R. (1968). The logic of scientific discovery. New York: Harper Torchbooks.
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RoyC. (2011). Research based on the Roy adaptation model: Last 25 years. Nursing Science Quarterly, 24, 312-320.
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RykkjeL.ErikssonK.RåholmM.-B. (2011). A qualitative metasynthesis of spirituality from a caring science perspective. International Journal for Human Caring, 15(4), 40-53.
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SchumacherK. L.MeleisA. I. (1994). Transitions: A central concept in nursing. Image: Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 26, 125-127.
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SkalskiC. A.DiGerolamoL.GigliottiE. (2006). Stressors in five client populations: Neuman systems model-based literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 56, 69–78.
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SmithM. C. (2011). Integrative review of research related to Margaret Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness. Nursing Science Quarterly, 24, 256-272.
