Title: Nursing Theories & Theorists: An Ultimate Guide for Nurses - Nurseslabs
Headings: Nursing Theories and Theorists
Nursing Theories and Theorists
What are Nursing Theories?
Defining Terms
History of Nursing Theories
The Nursing Metaparadigm
Person
Environment
Health
Nursing
Components of Nursing Theories
Phenomenon
Concepts
Definitions
Relational Statements
Assumptions
Why are Nursing Theories Important?
Purposes of Nursing Theories
In Academic Discipline
In Research
In Profession
Classification of Nursing Theories
By Abstraction
Grand Nursing Theories
Middle-Range Nursing Theories
Practice-Level Nursing Theories
By Goal Orientation
Descriptive Theories
Factor-Isolating Theory
Explanatory Theory
Prescriptive Theories
Other Ways of Classifying Nursing Theories
Classification According to Meleis
Classification According to Alligood
List of Nursing Theories and Theorists
Florence Nightingale
Hildegard E. Peplau
Virginia Henderson
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Ernestine Wiedenbach
Lydia E. Hall
Joyce Travelbee
Kathryn E. Barnard
Evelyn Adam
Nancy Roper, Winifred Logan, and Alison J. Tierney
Ida Jean Orlando
Jean Watson
Marilyn Anne Ray
Patricia Benner
Kari Martinsen
Katie Eriksson
Myra Estrin Levine
Martha E. Rogers
Dorothea E. Orem
Imogene M. King
Betty Neuman
Sister Callista Roy
Dorothy E. Johnson
Anne Boykin and Savina O. Schoenhofer
Afaf Ibrahim Meleis
Nola J. Pender
Madeleine M. Leininger
Margaret A. Newman
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
Helen C. Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, and Mary Ann P. Swain
Gladys L. Husted and James H. Husted
Ramona T. Mercer
Merle H. Mishel
Pamela G. Reed
Carolyn L. Wiener and Marylin J. Dodd
Georgene Gaskill Eakes, Mary Lermann Burke, and Margaret A. Hainsworth
Phil Barker
Katharine Kolcaba
Cheryl Tatano Beck
Kristen M. Swanson
Cornelia M. Ruland and Shirley M. Moore
References

Content: As a science, nursing is based on the theory of what nursing is, what nurses do, and why. Nursing is a unique discipline and is separate from medicine. It has its own body of knowledge on which delivery of care is based. Defining Terms
The development of nursing theory demands an understanding of selected terminologies, definitions, and assumptions. Philosophy. These are beliefs and values that define a way of thinking and are generally known and understood by a group or discipline. Theory. A belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action. It refers to a logical group of general propositions used as principles of explanation. Theories are also used to describe, predict, or control phenomena.