Nursing Theories

Florence Nightingale

Environmental Theory ( Environment influences healing and health)

Dorothea Orem

Self-Care Deficit Theory (Nurses help when patients cant meet self care needs )

Sister Callista Roy

Adaptation Model ( Nursing supports adaptive responses to change )

Hildegard Peplau

Interpersonal Relations Theory (Nurse-patient relationship is therapeutic )

Jean Watson

Theory of Human Caring ( Caring is central to nursing and healing )

Madeleine Leininger

Transcultural Nursing Theory ( Care must respect cultural values and beliefs. )

Imogene King

Theory of Goal Attainment ( Nurse and patient collaborate to set and reach goal )

Betty Neuman

Systems Model ( Nurses help manage stress to maintain system status )

Martha Rogers

Unitary Human Beings ( Patients are energy fields in constant interaction with environment )

Margaret Newman

Health as Expanding Consciousness (Health includes pattern of the whole person)

Rosemarie Parse

Human Becoming Theory (Focuses on meaning, rhythmicity, transcendence of human life. )

Katherine Kolcaba

Comfort Theory ( Nurses aim to enhance comfort in all dimension)

Ramona Mercer

Maternal Role Attainment Theory ( Describes becoming a mother and adapting to the maternal role)

Marilyn Ray

Bureaucratic Caring Theory ( Caring Within Healthcare Organizations includes Ethical and Spiritual Components)

Cheryl Black

Postpartum Depression Theory ( Focus on Mood, Disorders, Stigma, and Support for New Mothers)

Faye Abdellah

21 Nursing Problems ( Nursing is problem-centered to meet patient needs )

Virginia Henderson

Need Theory ( Assisting Individuals in Performing Activities for Health or Peaceful Death)

Ernestine Weidenbach

Prescreptive Theory (Nursing Involves identifying a need for help and fulfilling it)

Lydia Hall

Core, Care, Cure Model ( Care (nurturing) core (people), cure (medical treatment) roles in nursing.