Nursing Theories

For courses in undergraduate/graduate-level nursing theory. Nursing Theories: The Base for Professional Nursing Practice, Sixth Edition, is designed to help nurses apply concepts and theories to practice. This useful resource considers the ideas of well-known nursing theorists and relates the work of each to the clinical nursing practice. Chapters are organized to relate the theorist's work to the nursing metaparadigm, clinical nursing practice, characteristics of a theory, and strengths and limitations of the theory.1. An Introduction to Nursing Theory 2. Nursing Theory and Clinical Practice 3. Environmental Model: Florence Nightingale 4. Interpersonal Relations in Nursing: Hildegard E. Peplau 5. Definition and Components of Nursing: Virginia Henderson 6. Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory: Dorothea Elizabeth Orem 7. Behavioral System Model: Dorothy E. Johnson 8. Nursing Process Discipline: Ida Jean Orlando 9. Other Theories from the 1950s and 1960s 10. The Conservation Principles: A Model For Health: Myra Estrin Levine 11. Conceptual System and Theory of Goal Attainment: Imogene M. King 12. Science of Unitary Human Beings: Martha E. Rogers 13. The Roy Adaptation Model: Sister Callista Roy 14. The Neuman Systems Model: Betty Neuman 15. Other Theories from the 1970s 16. Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality: Madeleine M. Leininger 17. Health as Expanding Consciousness: Margaret A. Newman 18. Theory of Transpersonal Caring: Jean Watson 19. Human Becoming School of Thought: Rosemarie Rizzo Parse 20. The Modeling and Role-Modeling Theory: Helen Lorraine (Cook) Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, and Mary Ann P. Swain 21. Health Promotion Model: Nola J. Pender 22. Philosophy of Caring and Expert Nursing Practice: Patricia Benner 23. Other Theories of the 1980s 24. Other Nursing Theories from the 1990s