Table of Contents

Section I: An Introduction to Nursing Theory
Chapter 1: Nursing Theory and the Discipline of Nursing
Chapter 2: A Guide for the Study of Nursing Theories for Practice
Chapter 3: Choosing, Evaluating, and Implementing Nursing Theories for Practice

Section II: Conceptual Influences on the Evolution of Nursing
Chapter 4: Florence Nightingale's Legacy of Caring and Its Application
Chapter 5: Early Conceptualizations About Nursing
Chapter 6: Nurse-Patient Relationship Theories

Section III: Conceptual Models/Grand Theories in the Integrative-Interactive Paradigm
Chapter 7: Dorothy Johnson's Behavioral System Model and Its Applications
Chapter 8: Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory
Chapter 9: Imgoene King's Theory of Goal Attainment
Chapter 10: Sister Callista Roy's Adaptation Model
Chapter 11: Betty Neuman's Systems Model
Chapter 12: Helen Erickson, Evelyn Tomlin, and Mary Ann Swain's Theory of Modeling and Role Modeling
Chapter 13: Barbara Dossey's Theory of Integral Nursing

Section IV: Conceptual Models and Grand Theories in the Unitary-Transformative Paradigm
Chapter 14: Martha E. Rogers Science of Unitary Human Beings
Chapter 15: Rosemarie Rizzo Parse's Humanbecoming Paradigm
Chapter 16: Margaret Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness

Section V: Grand Theories about Care or Caring
Chapter 17: Madeleine Leininger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
Chapter 18: Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring
Chapter 19: Theory of Nursing as Caring

Section VI: Middle-Range Theories
Chapter 20: Transitions Theory
Chapter 21: Katharine Kolcaba's Comfort Theory
Chapter 22: Joanne Duffy's Quality-Caring Model
Chapter 23: Pamela Reed's Theory of Self-Transcendence
Chapter 24: Patricia Liehr and Mary Jane Smith's Story Theory
Chapter 25: The Community Nursing Practice Model
Chapter 26: Rozzano Locsin's Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing
Chapter 27: Marilyn Anne Ray's Theory of Bureaucratic Caring
Chapter 28: Troutman-Jordan's Theory of Successful Aging
Chapter 29: Barrett's Theory of Power as Knowing Participation in Change
Chapter 30: Marlaine Smith's Theory of Unitary Caring
Chapter 31: Kristen Swanson's Theory of Caring
Chapter 32: Adeline Falk-Rafael’s Critical Caring Theory
Chapter 33: Katie Eriksson’s Theory of Caritative Caring