Angelo Gonzalo, BSN, RN
Angelo Gonzalo earned his Nursing degree in the year 2010 and continued his studies at St. Paul University Manila taking up Masters of Arts in Nursing Major in Clinical Management. He worked as an intensive care nurse for more than six years. He advocates for proper training and development of new nurses, quality assurance and compassionate care. He has also been involved in community development for 10 years steering programs on good governance, health, sports, and education. Angelo aims to build a good foundation for aspiring nurses. He would like to impart the importance of understanding nursing theories that he hopes to be translated successfully to practice.
Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring
According to Watson's theory, "Nursing is concerned with promoting health, preventing illness, caring for the sick, and restoring health."
Ida Jean Orlando’s Deliberative Nursing Process Theory
Ida Jean Orlando developed her Deliberative Nursing Process that allows nurses to formulate an effective nursing care plan that can also be easily adapted when and if any complexity come up with the patient.
Imogene M. King’s Theory of Goal Attainment
Imogene M. King's Theory of Goal Attainment focuses on this process to guide and direct nurses in the nurse-patient relationship, going hand-in-hand with their patients to meet the goals towards good health.
Faye G. Abdellah’s 21 Nursing Problems Theory
Faye Abdellah formulated the 21 Nursing Problems theory that changed the focus on nursing care from disease-centered to patient-centered.
Dorothy E. Johnson’s Behavioral System Model
Dorothy E. Johnson proposed the Behavioral System Model Nursing Theory in 1968.
Lydia E. Hall’s Care, Cure, Core Theory
Lydia Hall developed the Care, Cure, Core Theory of Nursing which is also known as "Three Cs of Lydia Hall."
Martha E. Rogers’ Theory of Unitary Human Beings
Martha Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings explains the coexistence of human and the environment.
Hildegard Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations Theory
The Interpersonal relationships Theory was developed by Hildegard E. Peplau in 1952.
Madeleine Leininger’s Transcultural Nursing Theory
The Transcultural Nursing Theory or Culture Care Theory by Madeleine Leininger involves knowing and understanding different cultures with respect to nursing and health-illness caring practices, beliefs and values with the goal to provide meaningful and efficacious nursing care services to people according to their cultural values and health-illness context.
Sister Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model of Nursing
The Adaptation Model of Nursing is a prominent nursing theory aiming to explain or define the provision of nursing science.
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Nursing Theories and Theorists
In this guide for nursing theories, we aim to help you understand what comprises a nursing theory and its importance, purpose, history, types or classifications, and give you an overview through summaries of selected nursing theories.
