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Nursing Theorists and Their Work

  • 9th Edition - June 5, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Martha Raile Alligood
  • Language: English

A classic text is back with fresh, comprehensive nursing theories, critiques, and philosophies. Nursing Theorists and Their Work, 9th Edition provides you with an in-depth… Read more

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A classic text is back with fresh, comprehensive nursing theories, critiques, and philosophies. Nursing Theorists and Their Work, 9th Edition provides you with an in-depth look at 39 theorists of historical, international, and significant importance. This new edition has been updated with an improved writing style, added case studies, critical thinking activities, and in-depth objective critiques of nursing theories that help bridge the gap between theory and application. In addition, the six levels of abstraction (philosophy, conceptual models, grand theory, theory, middle-range theory, and future of nursing theory) are graphically depicted throughout the book to help you understand the context of the various theories.

Key features

  • Each theorist chapter is written by a scholar specializing in that particular theorist’s work, often having worked closely with the theorists, to provide the most accurate and complete information possible.
  • A case study at the end of each theorist chapter puts the theory into a larger perspective, demonstrating how it can be applied to practice.
  • Critical Thinking Activities at the end of each theorist chapter help you process the theory presented and apply it to personal and hypothetical practice situations.
  • Diagrams for theories help you visualize and better understand inherently abstract concepts.
  • A Brief Summary in each theorist chapter helps you review for tests and confirm their comprehension.
  • A Major Concepts & Definitions box included in each theorist chapter outlines the theory’s most significant ideas and clarifies content-specific vocabulary.
  • Points for Further Study at the end of each chapter directs you to assets available for additional information.
  • Quotes from the theorist make each complex theory more memorable.
  • An extensive bibliography at the conclusion of each theorist chapter outlines numerous primary and secondary sources of information for further study.

Table of contents

UNIT I: EVOLUTION OF NURSING THEORETICAL WORKS

1. Introduction to Nursing Theory: Its History and Significance

2. Nursing Theorists of Historical Significance

3. History of Nursing Science

4. Theory Development Process

5. The Structure and Analysis of Specialized Nursing Knowledge

UNIT II: NURSING PHILOSOPHIES

6. Florence Nightingale: Modern Nursing

7. Jean Watson: Watson’s Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring

8. Marilyn Anne Ray: Theory of Bureaucratic Caring

9. Patricia Benner: Caring, Clinical Wisdom, and Ethics in Nursing Practice

10. Kari Martinsen: Philosophy of Caring

11. Katie Eriksson: Theory of Caritative Caring

UNIT III: NURSING MODELS

12. Myra Estrin Levine: The Conservation Model

13. Martha E. Rogers: Unitary Human Beings

14. Dorothea E. Orem: Self-Care Deficit Theory of Nursing

15. Imogene M. King: Conceptual System and Middle Range Theory of Goal Attainment

16. Betty Neuman: Systems Model

17. Sister Callista Roy: Adaptation Model

18. Dorothy Johnson: Behavioral System Model

UNIT IV: NURSING THEORIES

19. Anne Boykin and Savina O. Schoenhofer: The Theory of Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice

20. Afaf Ibrahim Meleis: Transitions Theory

21. Nola J. Pender: Health Promotion Model

22. Madeline M. Leininger: Culture Care Theory of Diversity and Universality

23. Margaret A. Newman: Health as Expanding Consciousness

24. Rosemarie Rizzo Parse: Humanbecoming

25. Helen C. Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, Mary Ann P. Swain: Modeling and Role-Modeling

26. Gladys L. Husted and James H. Husted: Symphonological Bioethical Theory

UNIT V: MIDDLE RANGE THEORIES

27. Ramona T. Mercer: Maternal Role Attainment—Becoming a Mother

28. Merle Mishel: Uncertainty in Illness Theory

29. Pamela G. Reed: Self-Transcendence Theory

30. Carolyn L. Wiener and Marilyn J. Dodd: Theory of Illness Trajectory

31. Georgene Gaskill Eakes, Mary Lermann Burke, and Margaret A. Hainsworth: Theory of Chronic Sorrow

32. Phil Barker: The Tidal Model of Mental Health Recovery

33. Katherine Kolcaba: Theory of Comfort

34. Cheryl Tatano Beck: Postpartum Depression Theory

35. Kristen M. Swanson: Theory of Caring

36. Cornelia M. Ruland and Shirley M. Moore: Peaceful End-of-Life Theory

UNIT VI: FUTURE OF NURSING THEORY

37. State of the Art and Science of Nursing Theory

Product details

  • Edition: 9
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 6, 2017
  • Language: English

About the author

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Martha Raile Alligood

Martha Raile Alligood is professor emeritus at East Carolina University College of Nursing in Greenville, NC, where she was the Director of the Nursing PhD program. She is known nationally and internationally for her expertise in nursing theory and she is also the author of another Elsevier title, Nursing Theory: Utilization and Application, 5th edition which is a companion to this title. This title will not be revised due to low sales.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus School of Nursing East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina, USA