Nursing Theories: The Base for Professional Nursing Practice (6th Edition)

Description

Nursing Theories: The Base for Professional Nursing Practice, Sixth Edition, is designed to help nurses apply concepts and theories to practice. This useful resource considers the ideas of well-known nursing theorists and relates the work of each to the clinical nursing practice. Chapters are organized to relate the theorist’s work to the nursing metaparadigm, clinical nursing practice, characteristics of a theory, and strengths and limitations of the theory.

Key Features

• An emphasis on the use of nursing theory in clinical practice.
• Applies theoretical content to every day practice making the text more interactive and practical for students.
• Chapter on interdisciplinary practice.
• Introduces interdisciplinary (collaborative practice) models.
• Broadens the coverage of notable nursing theorists.
• Demonstrates to students how nursing theory is related to widely used collaborative practice models.
• Published examples of theory strategies.
• Real examples help students visualize how theoretical strategies are developed and implemented.
• Strengths and weaknesses are identified for each model/theory.
• Teaches students how to critically analyze nursing theories.
• The application of abstract models and theories to nursing practice situations.
• Clarifies complex content that is often difficult to conceptualize.
• International contingent of theorists.
• Reflects the diverse global aspects of nursing practice.

Table of Contents

1. Chapter 1. An Introduction to Nursing Theory
2. Chapter 2. Nursing Theory and Clinical Practice
3. Chapter 3. Environmental Model: Florence Nightingale
4. Chapter 4. Interpersonal Relations in Nursing: Hildegard E. Peplau
5. Chapter 5. Definition and Components of Nursing: Virginia Henderson
6. Chapter 6. Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory: Dorothea Elizabeth Orem
7. Chapter 7. Behavioral System Model: Dorothy E. Johnson
8. Chapter 8. Nursing Process Discipline: Ida Jean Orlando
9. Chapter 9. Other Theories from the 1950s and 1960s
10. Chapter 10. The Conservation Principles: A Model For Health: Myra Estrin Levine
11. Chapter 11. Conceptual System and Theory of Goal Attainment: Imogene M. King
12. Chapter 12. Science of Unitary Human Beings: Martha E. Rogers
13. Chapter 13. The Roy Adaptation Model: Sister Callista Roy
14. Chapter 14. The Neuman Systems Model: Betty Neuman
15. Chapter 15. Other Theories from the 1970s
16. Chapter 16. Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality: Madeleine M. Leininger
17. Chapter 17. Health as Expanding Consciousness: Margaret A. Newman
18. Chapter 18. Theory of Transpersonal Caring: Jean Watson
19. Chapter 19. Human Becoming School of Thought: Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
20. Chapter 20. The Modeling and Role-Modeling Theory: Helen Lorraine (Cook) Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, and Mary Ann P. Swain
21. Chapter 21. Health Promotion Model: Nola J. Pender
22. Chapter 22. Philosophy of Caring and Expert Nursing Practice: Patricia Benner
23. Chapter 23. Other Theories of the 1980s
24. Chapter 24Other Nursing Theories from the 1990s