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NURSING LICENSURE EXAM SELF-REVIEWBy Angel Garcia Carbajal, BSN

Summary of Nursing Theories

Theorist Goal of Nursing Framework for practiceHildegard Peplau (1952)

To develop interpersonal interaction between client and nurse

Interpersonal theoretical model emphasizing relationship between client and nurse

Faye Abdellah (1960) To deliver nursing care for whole individual

Problem solving based on 21 nursing problems

Virginia Henderson (1964)

To help client gain independence as rapidly as possible

Henderson’s 14 basic needs

Joyce Travelbee (1966)

To help client and family to cope with and find meaning in experience of illness

Interpersonal theory emphasizing nurse-client relationship

Dorothy Johnson (1968)

To reduce stress so that client can recover as quickly as possible

Adaptation model based on seven behavioral sub-systems

Martha Rogers (1970) To help client achieve maximal level of wellness

“Unitary man” evolving along life process

Imogene King (1971) To use communication to help client to reestablish positive adaptation to environment

Nursing process as dynamic interpersonal state between nurse and client

Dorothea Orem (1971)

To care for and help client to attain self-care

Self-care deficit theory

Betty Neuman (1972) To assist individuals, families, and groups to attain and maintain maximal level of total wellness by purposeful interventions

Systems model of nursing practice having stress reduction as its goal; nursing actions in one of three levels: primary, secondary, or tertiary

Myra Levine (1973) To use conservation activities aimed at optimal use of client’s resources

Adaptation model of human as integrated whole based on “four conservation principles of nursing”

Sister Callista Roy (1976)

To identify types o demands placed on client and client’s adaptation to them

Adaptation model based on four adaptive modes; physiological, psychological, sociological, and independence

Jean Watson (1979) To promote health, restore clients to health, and prevent illness (Marriner-Tomey, 1989)

Philosophy and science of caring: caring is an interpersonal process comprising interventions that result in meeting human needs (Torres, 1986)

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NURSING LICENSURE EXAM SELF-REVIEWBy Angel Garcia Carbajal, BSN

Ref: (From Basic Nursing Theory and Practice, Potter and Perry)http://www.nursingavenue.com/Nursing_Theories.html

NURSING THEORIESErickson, Tomlin & Swain - Modeling & Role-Modeling Theory (MRM)

Fitzpatrick, Joyce J. - Life Perspective Rhythm Model

Hall, Lydia E. - Core, Care and Cure Model

Henderson, Virginia - Definition of Nursing

King, Imogene M. - Systems Framework and Theory of Goal Attainment

Kolcaba, Katharine - Theory of Comfort

Leininger, Madeleine - Transcultural Nursing Model

Levine, Myra Estrin - The Conservation Model

Martinsen, Kari - Nursing Philosophy

Mercer, Ramona T. - Maternal Role Attainment

Neuman, Betty - The Neuman Systems Model

Neuman, Margaret - Health as Expanding Consciousness

Nightingale, Florence - (Systemic approach to health care)

Orem, Dorothea E. - Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory

Orlando, Ida Jean - Nursing Process Theory

Parse, Rosemarie Rizzo - Theory of Human Becoming

Peplau, Hildegard E. - Interpersonal Relations Model

Rogers, Martha E. - The Science of Unitary Human Beings

Roper, Logan & Tierney - The Elements of Nursing: A Model for Nursing Based on a Model of Living

Roy, Callista - The Roy Adaptation Model

Watson, Jean - Theory of Caring in Nursing

Wiedenbach, Ernestine - The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing