| Nursing Theories - 1 | Nursing Theories - 2 |
| Nursing | the attributes, characteristics, and actions of the nurse providing care on behalf of, or in conjunction with, the client. |
| Critical Theories | Used in academia to describe theories that help elucidate how social structures affect a wide variety of human experiences from art to social practices. In nursing, it helps explain how these structures as race, gender, etc., affect patient health |
| Practice Discipline | used for fields of study in which the central focus is performance of a professional role. |
| Hildegard Peplau | Interpersonal relations model |
| Philosophy | A belief system, often an early effort to define nursing phenomena and serves as the basis of later theoretical formulations. |
| Theory | Supposition or system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given phenomenon. |
| Betty Newman | Sytem's Model |
| Florence Nightingale | Environmental Theory |
| Environmental Theory | Pure air, water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, sunlight |
| Virginia Henderson | Fourteen fundamental needs |
| Unitary Man | Irreducible, Interacts continuously, Behaves in totality, Sentient being |
| Concepts | Building blocks of theories |
| Martha Rogers | Unitary Human Beings. Non-contact therapeutic touch |
| Paradigm | Pattern of of shared understandings and assumptions about reality and the world. |
| Midlevel Theories | Focuses on exploration of concepts such as pain, self-esteem, learning and hardiness. |
| Meta-paradigm | with-pattern |
| Dorothea Orem | Self-care, Self-care deficit, Nursing Systems |
| Imogene King | Goal Attainment Theory |
| Interpersonal Relations Model | Orientation, Identification, Exploitation, Resolution |
| Madeleine Leininger | Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory |
| Conceptual Framework/Model or Grand Theories | Group of related ideas, statements or concepts |
| Sister Callista Roy | Adaptation Model |
| Metaparadigm for Nursing (Major Concepts) | Person or client, Environment, Health & Nursing |
| Health | the degree of wellness or well-being that the client experiences. |
| Jean Watson | Caring Theory |
| Environment | the internal and external surroundings that affect the client. This includes people in the physical environment, such as families, friends and significant others. |
| Person or client | recipient of nursing care (includes individuals, families, groups and communities). |
| Parse | Human Becoming Theory |
