THE NURSING THEORISTS

Florence Nightingale

Environmental Aspects as integral part of nursing

Florence Nightingale

Development of excellent training system in St. Thomas Hospital and King’s College Hospital in London. Scientific principles are practical experience in mastery of skills.

Florence Nightingale

Invented the “polar diagrams” to analyze and gather data.

Hildegard Peplau

Provides clear design for the practice of psychiatric nursing.

Hildegard Peplau

Emphasized the development of interpersonal relationship between the patient and the nurse.

Hildegard Peplau

Author of “Interpersonal Relations in Nursing”

Hildegard Peplau

Formulated effective psychotherapeutic methods.

Hildegard Peplau

Formulated concepts of anxiety as a means to constructively resolve angry feeling…

Virgina Henderson

Advocated research as a way to improve practice.

Virgina Henderson

Recommended Library research

Virgina Henderson

Designed three phases of curriculum development.

Virgina Henderson

Nurse’s education demands universal understanding of diverse human being.

Virginia Henderson

Nurses as direct caregiver helps patients to become independent.

Betty Neuman

Guide Model to enhance the nursing care of clients with specific physiological stressors.

Betty Neuman

Additional clarification and generation of testable nursing theories

Betty Neuman

Holistic Curriculum; effective framework in conceptual evolution among levels of education of nursing students

Betty Neuman

Neuman Nursing Process Format (Diagnosis, Goals, Outcomes)

Betty Neuman

Goal-directed, integrated and holistic approach to client care.

Imogene King

Utilized by professionals in most specialty areas.

Imogene King

Developed the Goal Oriented Nursing Record (GONR) which is used to record goals and outcomes in patient settings.

Imogene King

Nursing curriculum development and practice application in Ohio state and other universities.

Imogene King

Her work served as a theoretical basis for various studies.

Joyce Travelbee

Hospice is one of her essential contributions

Joyce Travelbee

Asserted that finding meaning in illness and suffering enables the patient…

Joyce Travelbee

The focus of nursing education has shifted from a disease-oriented approach to holistic care approach

Joyce Travelbee

Stated that Nursing programs need to offer much broader background

Joyce Travelbee

Utilized by various authors in their studies of recently diagnosed cancer patients

Martha Rogers

Nursing Intervention is always focused on unitary human being

Martha Rogers

Nursing interventions include all the noninvasive actions

Martha Rogers

Seminars and trainings for nurses should focus more on teaching noninvasive interventions

Martha Rogers

The theory has been used by various researchers as it is applicable and found testable

Patricia Benner

Formulated the levels of Competency in Nursing Practice

Patricia Benner

Learning needs at an early stage of clinical knowledge are different from those needed in later stage

Patricia Benner

Extended the study of formal models which direct care and substitute knowledge used in nursing practice.

Dorothea Orem

described nursing management of Pertussis

Dorothea Orem

Teaching self-care to diabetic patients and end-stage renal failure

Dorothea Orem

Pain assessment and control

Dorothea Orem

Came up with the idea of a need for a nursing-specific knowledge structure

Dorothea Orem

author of Guides for Developing Curriculum for the Education of Practical Nurses and Foundations of Nursing and its practice

Dorothea Orem

Developed a number of instruments for reseach

Dorothea Orem

The first instrument developed ESCA - Exercise Self Care Agency which is used to determine the capacity of patients…

Faye Glenn Abdellah

Organized and systematized basis of nursing practice

Faye Glenn Abdellah

Typology helps in efficient assessment…

Faye Glenn Abdellah

Uses scientific basis in problem solving process

Faye Glenn Abdellah

The typology provided scientific body of knowledge and filled in the gaps

Faye Glenn Abdellah

believed that ebp on scientific data has great impact…

Sr. Callista Roy

Manipulating the stimuli and not the patient

Sr. Callista Roy

nurses enhance the interaction of person and their environment

Sr. Callista Roy

Development of Curriculum development

Sr. Callista Roy

Three vertical strands in the curriculum

Sr. Callista Roy

Two horizontal strands in the curriculum

Sr. Callista Roy

development and testing of theories

Sr. Callista Roy

practice based research

Sr. Callista Roy

development of programs of research

Sr. Callista Roy

development of adaptation research instruments

Ernestine Wiedenbach

Provides foundation for assessing or explaining client conditions

Ernestine Wiedenbach

Influence many core concepts in nursing today

Ernestine Wiedenbach

In her model, the focus of nursing research is to be related to the client’s response…

Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad

Applied in Palliative Care and Oncology Nursing

Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad

Believed that nursing experience should be founded in experience

Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad

Applied in research regarding hospice and palliative care.

Margaret Newman

Concepts of movement and time that are used by nurses in interventions

Margaret Newman

Establish primary relationship with the client

Margaret Newman

Faculty becoming involved with students in a project…

Margaret Newman

Research should center on investigations that are participatory

Margaret Newman

Introduced cooperative inquiry…

Ida Jean Orlando

The theory stresses the reciprocal relationship between the client and the nurse

Ida Jean Orlando

The dynamic concept of the nurse-client interaction

Ida Jean Orlando

The theory is used in the academe by focusing on individual learning needs

Ida Jean Orlando

The theory provides a framework on how to produce improvement in the client’s behavior

Ida Jean Orlando

Serves as an evidence based practice in deciding and helping

Joyce Fitzpatrick

Focuses on holistic approach of the nursing practice

Joyce Fitzpatrick

The nurse should empower the client

Joyce Fitzpatrick

The theory focuses on health promotion

Joyce Fitzpatrick

Adequate knowledge and mastery

Joyce Fitzpatrick

The theory is a complex one

Myra Lestine Levine

Used in variety of settings

Myra Lestine Levine

Used as a curriculum model and is part of both undergraduate and graduate curricula

Myra Lestine Levine

The model was utilized to develop nursing undergraduate program

Myra Lestine Levine

The model serves as a guide in teaching Medical-Surgical Nursing.

Jean Watson

Caring as an essential field in nursing.

Jean Watson

AUthor of Nursing: Human Science and Human Care Theory of Nursing

Jean Watson

Described the core of nursing

Jean Watson

Research must focus on both subjective and objective

Lydia Hall

Loeb Center for Nursing

Lydia Hall

The center’s guiding philosophy

Lydia Hall

Her theory supports the model of primary care

Anne Boykin and Savina Schoenhofer

Practicing Nursing within this requires the acknowledgement

Anne Boykin and Savina Schoenhofer

The model for organizational design of nursing

Anne Boykin and Savina Schoenhofer

Postulated on the use of phenomenological-hermeneutical process

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse

Provides an alternative nursing approach to solving client’s problem

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse

Provides nurses with emphasis that actions should focus on valuing

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse

Creates a deeper understanding of the nursing education

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse

The theory is applied in crisis

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse

Focuses on lived experiences

Dorothy Johnson

Used assessment, disorders, treatment, and evaluation instead of Nursing Process

Dorothy Johnson

Focuses on the patient as the behavioral system

Dorothy Johnson

Identify and explain the behavioral system disorders