TOWARD A MIDDLE-RANGE THEORY OF RESILIENCE

The ability to transform disaster into a growth experience and move fo rward defines the concept of resilience. Nursing is concerned with ind ividuals in this process of moving through adversity and with its own contribution to that process. However, when one examines the literatur e on resilience for insight into its nature, inconsistencies emerge, s uggesting that further theoretical delineation of the concept is neede d. This article reports a concept synthesis of resilience undertaken t o clarify this confusion. A model, disclosed through the literature, p ostulates resilience as a four-dimensional construct consistent with t he simultaneity paradigm of nursing science.