Nursing Theorists
Nursing Theorists Overview
"Nursing theories and models provide information about: definitions of nursing and nursing practice, principles that form the basis for practice, and goals and functions of nursing."
-- Wesley, R. L. (1995). Nursing theories and models. Springhouse, PA: Springhouse Corporation. (page 2)
- Abdellah, Faye Glenn
- Twenty-One Nursing Problems
- Benner, Patricia
- Novice to Expert Model
- Boykin, Anne & Schoenhofer, Sarvina O.
- Nursing As Caring
- Fitzpatrick, Joyce J.
- Rhythm Model
- Hall, Lydia E.
- Core, Care, and Cure Model
- Henderson, Virginia
- Definition of Nursing
- Johnson, Dorothy
- Behavioral System Model
- King, Imogene
- General System Framework
- Kolcaba, Katharine
- Theory of Comfort
- Leininger, Madeleine
- Theory of Cultural Care, Diversity and Universality
- Levine, Myra
- Conservation Model
- Mercer, Ramona T.
- Maternal Role Attainment
- Neuman, Betty
- Systems Model
- Newman, Margaret
- Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
- Nightingale, Florence
- Environmental Adaptation Theory
- Orem, Dorothea
- Self-Care Framework
- Orlando, Ida Jean
- Theory of the Nursing Process Discipline
- Parse, Rosemarie
- Theory of Human Becoming
- Pender, Nola J.
- Health Promotion Model
- Peplau, Hildegard
- Theory of Interpersonal Relations
- Rogers, Martha
- Science of Unitary Human Beings
- Roper, Nancy , Logan, Winifred W. , Tierney, Alison J.
- The Elements of Nursing: A Model for Nursing Based on a Model of Living
- Roy, Callista
- Adaptation Model
- Travelbee, Joyce
- Human-To-Human Relationship Model
- Watson, Jean
- Theory of Human Caring
- Wiedenbach, Ernestine
- The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing