Nursing Theories

Abdellah, Faye Glenn - Practice model of nursing for health for all.
Benner, Patricia - Humanistic Model.
Boykin, Anne and Schoenhofer, Savina - Theory, Nursing As Caring.
Juliette Corbin and Anselm Strauss - Trajectory Model
Duldt-Battey, Bonnie Weaver - Humanistic Nursing Communication Theory.
Erickson, Tomlin and Swain - Modeling and Role-Modeling theory.
Fitzpatrick, Joyce - The four content concepts that comprise Fitzpatrick’s theory are person, health, wellness-illness and metaparadigm.
Hall, Lydia Eloise - Core, Care and Cure Circles.
Henderson, Virginia Avernal - "assisting individuals to gain independence in relation to the performance of activities contributing to health or its recovery".
Husted, Gladys and Husted, James - Symphonological Bioethical Theory
Dorothy Johnson - Behavioral System Model
Kalofissudis Ioannis - Complexity Nursing Theory.

King, Imogene - Open Systems Theory.
Levine, Myra Estrin - Conservation Model.
Meleis, Afaf - Transitions Theory.
Neuman, Betty - Systems Theory.
Newman, Margaret A. - Health as Expanding Consciousness.
Nightingale, Florence
Orem, Dorothea E. - Self-Care Deficit Theory (SCDNT).
Parse, Rosemarie R. - Theory of Human Becoming
Paterson, Josephine and Zderad, Loretta - Humanistic Nursing Theory.
Riehl-Sisca, Joan - Self-concept construct.
Rogers, Martha Elizabeth - The Science of Unitary Human Beings.
Roper, Nancy, Logan, Winifred W. & Tierney, Alison J. - Theory of Nursing.
Roy, Callista - Adaptation Theory.
Travelbee, Joyce - "Human to Human Relationship Model"
Watson, Jean - Theory of Caring.
Wiedenbach, Ernestine - Prescriptive theory: a situation producing theory.

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