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Directory of Nurse Theory/Model Scholars
Abdellah, Faye G – Patient-Centered Nursing
Barnard, Kathryn E. – Barnard’s Child Health Assessment Interaction Theory
Barrett, Elizabeth – Theory of Power as Knowing Participation in Change
Barros, Alba Lucia Bottura Leite de – Situation-Specific Theory for Health Management in Heart Failure
Beck, Cheryl Tatano – Middle Range Theory of Traumatic Childbirth: The Ever Widening Ripple Effect
Benner, Patricia – The Primacy of Caring
Boykin, Anne – The Theory of Nursing As Caring
Butterfield, Patricia G. – Butterfield Upstream Model for Population (BUMP) Health Model
Campbell, Lisa – Leveraging Resources Model
Chinn, Peggy L –
Culver, Martha E. – Leveraging Resources Model
Curley, Martha A.Q. – The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care
DeSanto-Madeya, Susan – Moving Beyond Dwelling in Suffering
Davidson, Judy – Facilitated Sensemaking
Dossey, Barbara – Theory of Integral Nursing
Duffy, Joanne R. – Quality-Caring Model©
Ellenbecker, Carol Hall – Conceptual Model of Nursing (Nursology) and Population Health
Erickson, Helen – Modeling and Role Modeling
Falk-Rafael, Adeline –
Fawcett, Jacqueline –
- Conceptual Model of Nursing and Health Policy
- Moving Beyond Dwelling in Suffering
- Conceptual Model of Nursology for Enhancing Equity and Quality
Foli, Karen –
- Middle Range Theory of Parental Postadoption Depression
- Middle Range Theory of Nurses’ Psychological Trauma
Foronda, Cynthia – Theory of Cultural Humility
Freysteinson , Wyona M. – Neurocognitive Model of Mirror-Viewing
Garrett, Bernard M. – An Empirical Framework for Person, Family, Community and Population Centered Care
Georges, Jane – Theory of Emancipatory Compassion for Nursing
Gill, Jessica M. – Society-to-Cells Resilience Theory
Gottlieb, Laurie – Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare (SBNH)
Hall, Lydia – Hall’s Care, Core, Cure Theory
Henderson, Virginia – The Nature of Nursing
Hirano, Gisele Saraiva Bispo – Situation-Specific Theory for Health Management in Heart Failure
Im, Eun-Ok – Situation-Specific Theory
Jaarsma, Tiny – Theory of Self-Care of Chronic Illness
Johnson, Dorothy E. – Johnson Behavioral System Model
Kagan, Paula – Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing: Social Justice as Praxis
King, Imogene – King’s Conceptual System
Kolcaba, Katharine – Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory
Leininger, Madeleine – Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
Lee, Helen J. – Rural Nursing Theory
Lenz, Elizabeth R – Theory of Unpleasant Symptoms
Levine, Myra – Levine’s Conservation Model
Logan, Winifred – Roper-Logan-Tierney Model of Nursing Based on Activities of Living
Lowe, John – A Conceptual Framework of Nursing in Native American Culture
Luck, Susan – Theory of Integrative Nurse Coaching
McClanahan, Chris – Leveraging Resources Model
Meleis, Afaf Ibrahim –
Mishel, Merle H. – Mishel’s Uncertainly in Illness Theory and Reconceptualized Uncertainty in Illness Theory
Neuman, Betty – Neuman’s Systems Model
Newman, Margaret – Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
Nightingale, Florence – Florence Nightingale’s Perspective of Nursology
Nikfarid, Lida – Human as Embodied Spirit
Nye, Caitlin M. – Theory of Norm-Criticism for Nursing Education
Orem, Dorothea – Orem’s Self-Care Framework/Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing/The Self-Care Nursing Theory/A General Theory of Nursing
Orlando Pelletier, Ida Jean – Orlando’s Theory of the Deliberative Nursing Process
O’Rourke, Maria Williams – O’Rourke Role Based Practice Theory
Parse, Rosemarie Rizzo – Parse’s Theory of Humanbecoming
Paterson, Josephine – Humanistic Nursing
Pender, Nola – Health Promotion in Nursing Practice
Peplau, Hildegard – Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations
Perry, Donna J. – Transcendent Pluralism
Polifroni, E. Carol –
- Clinical Power
- Perspectives on Philosophy of Science in Nursing: An Historical and Contemporary Anthology
Pugh, Linda – Theory of Unpleasant Symptoms
Ray, Marilyn (Dee) – Ray’s Theory of Bureaucratic Caring
Reed, Pamela – Self-Transcendence Theory
Riegel, Barbara –
Rogers, Martha – Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings
Roper, Nancy – Roper-Logan-Tierney Model of Nursing Based on Activities of Living
Rosa, Katherine C. – Process Model of Wholistic Healing and Personal Transformation
Roy, Sr. Callista – Roy’s Adaptation Model
Russell, Gail – Conceptual Model of Nursing and Health Policy
Sadat-Hoseini, Akram . – Conceptual framework of nursing based on Islamic documents
Schaub, Bonney Gulino – Theory of Integrative Nurse Coaching
Schoenhofer, Savina O. – The Theory of Nursing As Caring
Silva, Viviane Martins – Situation-Specific Theory for Health Management in Heart Failure
Smith, Marlaine –
- Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing: Social Justice as Praxis
- Middle Range Theory of Unitary Caring
Somayaji, Darryl – Theory of Norm-Criticism for Nursing Education
Stromberg, Anna – Theory of Self-Care of Chronic Illness
Struthers, Roxanne – A Conceptual Framework of Nursing in Native American Culture
Swain, Mary Ann – Modeling and Role Modeling
Szanton, Sarah L. – Society-to-Cells Resilience Theory
Tengelin, Ellinor – Theory of Norm-Criticism for Nursing Education
Tierney, Alison – Roper-Logan-Tierney Model of Nursing Based on Activities of Living
Tomlin, Evelyn – Modeling and Role Modeling
Travelbee, Joyce – Interpersonal Aspects of Nursing
Turkel, Marian – Transtheoretical Evolution of Ray’s Theory of Bureaucratic Caring
Vaughan Dickson, Victoria – Situation Specific Theory of Heart Failure Self-care
Walter, Robin R. – Emancipatory Nursing Praxis
Watson, (Margaret) Jean – Watson’s Theory of Human Caring
Welch, Martylouise – Perspectives on Philosophy of Science in Nursing: An Historical and Contemporary Anthology
Whitcomb, Kathryn –Leveraging Resources Model
Wiedenbach, Ernestine – Clinical Nursing: A Helping Art
Winters, Charlene A. – Rural Nursing Theory
Willis, Danny, Moving Beyond Dwelling in Suffering
Wrubel, Judith – The Primacy of Caring
Zahourek, Rothlyn P. (Rorry) – Intentionality: The Matrix of Healing
Zderad, Loretta – Humanistic Nursing