Introduction to nursing theory: its history, significance, and analysis -- History and philosophy of science -- Theory development process -- The structure of specialized nursing knowledge -- Nursing theories of historical significance -- Florence Nightingale: modern nursing -- Jean Watson: Watson's philosophy and theory of transpersonal caring -- Marilyn Ann Ray: theory of bureaucratic caring -- Patricia Benner: caring, clinical wisdom, and ethics in nursing practice -- Kari Martinsen: philosophy of caring -- Katie Eriksson: theory of caritative caring -- Myra Estrin Levine: the conservation model -- Martha E. Rogers: unitary human beings -- Dorothea E. Orem: self-care deficit theory of nursing -- Imogene M. King: conceptual system and middle-range theory of goal attainment -- Betty Neuman: systems model -- Sister Callista Roy: adaptation model -- Dorothy E. Johnson: behavioral system model -- Anne Boykin and Savina O. Schoenhofer: the theory of nursing as caring: a model for transforming practice -- Afaf Ibrahim Meleis: transitions theory -- Nola J. Pender: health promotion model -- Madeleine M. Leininger: culture care theory of diversity and universality -- Margaret A. Newman: health as expanding consciousness -- Rosemarie Rizzo Parse: humanbecoming -- Helen C. Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, Mary Ann P. Swain: modeling and role-modeling -- Gladys L. Husted and James H. Husted: symphonological bioethical theory -- Ramona T. Mercer: maternal role attainment-becoming a mother -- Merle H. Mishel: uncertainty in illness theory -- Pamela G. Reed: self-transcendence theory -- Carolyn L. Wiener and Marylin J. Dodd: theory of illness trajectory -- Georgene Gaskill Eakes, Mary Lermann Burke, and Margaret A. Hainsworth: theory of chronic sorrow -- Phil Barker: the tidal model of mental health recovery -- Katharine Kolcaba: theory of comfort -- Cheryl Tatano Beck: postpartum depression theory -- Kristen M. Swanson: theory of caring -- Cornelia M. Ruland and Shirley M. Moore: peaceful end-of-life theory -- State of the art and science of nursing theory.
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