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.
Which Nursing Theorist Are You?
Let’s take a look down our memory lanes at these role models in nursing and try to see a part of us in them.
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."
Jean Watson
Jean Watson is an American nurse theorist and nursing professor who is well known for her "Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring."
Ida Jean Orlando
Ida Jean Orlando was a known psychiatric nurse, theorist and researcher who developed the "Deliberate Nursing Process Theory."
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
Imogene Martina King was one of the pioneers and most sought nursing theorists for her Theory of Goal Attainment which was developed in the early 1960s.
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.
Faye G. Abdellah – Pioneer of 21 Nursing Problems
Faye Glenn Abdellah is a pioneer in nursing research who developed the "Twenty-One Nursing Problems."
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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.
