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NURSING BASIC THEORIES AND
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
NURSING THEORIES
1. Florence Nightingale
First Theory Of Nursing
Environment theory
2. Virginia Henderson
14 Basic Needs
Assisting the client in gaining independence as possible
3. Faye Abdellah
Patient- Centered Approach Model
Nursing as an art
4. Dorothy Johnson
Behavioural System Model (7)
Achieve balance and stability both internally and externally in
adjusting and adapting to environment
5. Imogene King
Goal Attainment Theory
Nursing is a profession that assists individuals and groups in
society to maintain and restore health
6. Madeleine Leininger
Transcultural Nursing Model helping a client through specific
cultural caring process
7. Myra Levin
4 Conservation Principles
Nursing is a human interaction which are concerned with unity
and integrity of the individual
8. Betty Neuman
Health Care System Model
Concerned with individuals response to stress
9. Dorothea Orem
Self-Care Deficit Theory
10. Hildegard Peplau
Interpersonal Model
4 phases of the nurse- patient relationship
a. Orientation
b. Identification
c. Exploitation
d. Resolution
11. Martha Rogers
Science Of Humanitary Human Beings
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Human being is characterized by capacity for abstraction and
imagery, language and thought,
sensation and emotion
12. Sister Callista Roy
Adaptation Model
Unified biopychosocial system
Consists of input, control, process, output and feedback
13. Lydia Hall
Care, Core, Cure
14. Ida Jean Orlando
The dynamic nurse-patient relationship model
15, Erneistine Weidenbach
Clinical Nursing- A Helping Art Model
Nhelp through identification of the needs, administration of
help and validation of actions were
helpful
16. Jean Watson
Human Caring Model
17. Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
Theory Of Human Becoming
Free choice of personal meaning in relating value priorities
18. Joyce Travelbee
Interpersonal Aspects Of Nursing Model
Assisting individual or family preventing or coping with illness
Interpersonal process is a human to human relationship formed
during illness and experience of
suffering
Person is a unique individual who in a continuous process of
becoming, evolving and changing
19. Helen Erickson, Evelyn Tomlin & Mary Ann Swain
Modelling And Role Modelling Theory
Models (assesses), role models (plans)
20. Margaret Newman
Health as expanding consciousness
Disease is a manifestation of the pattern of health
21. Patricia Benner & Judith Wrubel
Primary Of Caring Model
Caring is the essence of nursing
MORAL THEORIES
1. Freud
2. Erikson
Psychosocial Developmental Stage
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3. Kohlberg
3 Levels Of Moral Development
a. Preconventional level
b. Conventional level
c. Postconventional
Relationship are based on mutual trust
4. Peters
Rational Morality Based On Principles
5. Schulman & Mekler
Morality is a measure of how people treat fellow humans and that
a moral child is one who strives to
be kind and just
6. Giligan
Concepts Of Caring And Responsibility
3 stages of ethic of care
a. Caring of oneselfb. Caring of others
c. Caring of self and others
