Nursing Theorists

Question 1

Theory of Virginia Henderson

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Need Theory

Question 2

Theory of Florence Nightingale

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Environmental Theory

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Theory of Dorothy Johnson

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Behavioral System Model

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Theorist of Conservation Model

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Myra Estrin Levine

Question 5

Theorist of Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory

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Dorothea Orem

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The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing Theorist

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Ernestine Wiedenbach

Question 7

Hildegard Elizabeth Peplau theory

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Theory of Interpersonal Relations

Question 8

Theory of Faye Glenn Abdellah

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The 21 Nursing Problems Theory

Question 9

Martha Rogers Theory

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Science of Unitary Human Being

Question 10

Theory of Human Caring Theorist

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Jean Watson

Question 11

Theorist of Adaptation Model Theory

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Sister Callista Roy

Question 12

Imogene King’s Theory

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Goal Attainment Theory

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Rosemarie Rizzo Parse’s Theory

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The Theory of Human Becoming

Question 14

Joyce Travelbee’s Theory

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Human to Human Relationship Theory

Question 15

The Theory of Nursing As Caring: A model for transforming practice theorist

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Anne Boykin & Savina O. Schoenhofer

Question 16

Margaret Newman’s Theory

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Theory on Health as Expanding Consciousness

Question 17

It defined the nurse’s role as assisting sick or healthy people to gain independence in meeting 14 basic needs.

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Need Theory

Question 18

It advocated for the patient’s efficient and effective behavioral functioning in order to prevent illness. There are subsystems within a system and if one subsystem is missing, then optimum health will not be achieved.

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Behavioral System Model

Question 19

In this theory, Nursing was defined as “the act of utilizing the patient’s environment to aid him in his recovery.”

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Environmental Theory

Question 20

As the cornerstone of nursing practice, it emphasizes the nurse-client interaction.

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Theory of Interpersonal Relations

Question 21

The _______ core goal is to improve a person’s physical and emotional well-being by focusing on the four conservation domains she outlined.

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Conservation Model

Question 22

Nursing care, according to her theory, is required if the client is unable to meet biological, psychological, developmental, or social needs.

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Self Care Deficit Nursing Theory

Question 23

Wiedenbach’s model of nursing defines the patient as any person receiving help of some kind from the health care system. In this nursing theory, a patient does not need to be ill or injured since health education qualifies someone as a patient.

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The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing

Question 24

A conceptual model mainly concerned with patient’s needs and nurses’ role in problem identification using a problem analysis approach.

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The 21 Nursing Problems Theory

Question 25

The theory views nursing as both a science and an art as it provides a way to view the unitary human being, who is integral with the universe. 

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Science of Unitary Human Being

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The nursing model states that “nursing is concerned with promoting health, preventing illness, caring for the sick, and restoring health”.

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Theory of Human Caring

Question 27

Nurses assess the patient's behaviors for adaptation, promote positive adaptation by enhancing environment interactions and helping patients react positively to stimuli.

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Adaptation Model Theory

Question 28

It describes  a dynamic, interpersonal relationship in which a patient grows and develops to attain certain life goals. The theory explains that factors which can affect the attainment of goals are roles, stress, space, and time.

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Goal Attainment Theory

Question 29

Human-becoming is guided by the idea of focusing on life as it is lived and described. It examines one’s quality of life as it is lived and described.

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Theory of Human Becoming

Question 30

Nursing is an interpersonal process whereby the nurse assists a patient/family to prevent or cope with experience or illness and suffering and, if necessary, to find meaning in these experiences.

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Human to Human Relationship Theory

Question 31

The theory of Nursing As Caring is  a general or grand nursing theory that can be used as a framework to guide nursing practice.The theory is grounded in several key assumptions: persons are caring by virtue of their humanness. persons live their caring moment to moment. persons are whole or complete in the moment.

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The Theory of Nursing As Caring: A model for transforming practice

Question 32

“Nursing is the process of recognizing the patient in relation to the environment, and it is the process of the understanding of consciousness.”

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Theory on Health as Expanding Consciousness