Nursing Theorists

Question 1

Investigates the effect of the environment on healing

Answer 1

Florence Nightingale

Question 2

Interpersonal relations model explores the interpersonal relationship of the positive outcomes related to health and wellness

Answer 2

Hildegard E. Peplau

Question 3

Twenty-one nursing problems; client-centered interventions

Answer 3

Faye Abdellah

Question 4

Theory of nursing process; deliberate nursing approach using nursing process, which stresses the action of the individual client in determining the action of the nurse; focus is on the present or short-term outcome

Answer 4

Ida Jean Orlando

Question 5

Definition of nursing; nursing assists patients with 14 essential functions toward independence

Answer 5

Virginia Henderson

Question 6

Conservation model; four conservation principles of inpatient client resources (energy, structural integrity, personal integrity, & social integrity)

Answer 6

Myra Estrin Levine

Question 7

Science of unitary human beings; energy fields, openness, pattern, and orginization; nurse promotes synchronicity between human beings and their universe or environment

Answer 7

Martha E. Rogers

Question 8

Systems model; wellness-illness continuum; promotes the nurse as the agent in assisting the client in adapting to and therefore reducing their stressors; supports the notion of prevention through appropriate intervention

Answer 8

Betty Neuman

Question 9

Self-care model; nursing facilitates client self-care by measuring the client’s deficit relative to self-care needs; the nurse implements appropriate measures to assist the client in meeting these needs by matching them with an appropriate supportive intervention

Answer 9

Dorothea Orem

Question 10

Goal attainment theory; goal attainment using nurse-client transactions; addresses client systems and includes society, groups, and the individual

Answer 10

Imogene King

Question 11

Roy’s adaptation model; client’s adaptation to condition using environmental stimuli to adjust perception

Answer 11

Sister Callista Roy

Question 12

Theory of cultural care diversity and universality; transcultural nursing and caring nursing; concepts are aimed toward caring and the components of a culture care theory; diversity, universality, worldview, and ethnohistory are essential to the four concepts (care, caring, health, and nursing)

Answer 12

Madeline Leininger

Question 13

Philosophy and science of caring and humanistic nursing; there are 10 “carative” factors that are core to nursing; this holistic outlook addresses the impact and importance of altruism, sensitivity, trust, and interpersonal skills

Answer 13

Jean Watson

Question 14

Central components of this model are health and consciousness followed by concepts of movement, time, and space; all components are summative units, described in relationship to health and to each other

Answer 14

Margaret Newman

Question 15

Behavioral system model for nursing; separates the psychologic and the physiologic aspects of illness; role of the nurse is to provide support and comfort to attain regulation of the client’s behavior

Answer 15

Dorothy E. Johnson

Question 16

Theory of human becoming proposes that quality of life from each person’s individual perspective should be the goal of nursing practice; individual, by existing, actively participates in creating health according to environmental influences; individual is regarded as an open system wherin health is a process

Answer 16

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse