Myra Estrin Levine

Defined nursing as supportive & therapeutic interventions based on scientific or therapeutic knowledge. Nursing actions based on four principles: conservation of energy, structural integrity, personal integrity, & social integrity. 

• On the Humanities in Nursing. Myra E. Levine. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research. Vol. 30, No. 4, March 1999.

"Ethical behaviour is not the display of one's moral rectitude in times of crisis," says nurse Myra Levine, "It is the day-to-day expression of one's commitment to other persons and the ways in which human beings relate to one another in their daily interactions. - Levine, Myra. (1977). Nursing ethics and the ethical nurse. American Journal of Nursing, 77:5, p. 846.

• On the Humanities in Nursing, by Myra E. Levine, CJNR 30(4): 213 1999 - On the Humanities in Nursing, by Myra E. Levine, in Canadian Journal of Nursing. Nursing is a humanitarian enterprise. The emphasis placed on scientific and technical knowledge is indispensable to the development of the craft - but it is imperfectly achieved without the intellectual skills that are the special province of the humanities

The Nurse Theorists:  Portraits of Excellence, “Fitne VLRC”

• Myra Levine:  "The Conservative Model" includes video interviews in which the theorist discusses her life, the evolution of her work and its impact on nursing practice and education. Each program also contains a bibliography of the theorist's writing and a resource list of web sites, listservs and organizations