PartI Part I: Introduction to Nursing Theory
Chapter1 What is Nursing Theory?
Chapter2 Why are Theories Important in Nursing?
Chapter3 The Development of Nursing Theory
PartII Part II: Theories that Define Nursing or Discuss Nursing in a General Sense (Philosophies
Chapter4 Evaluating a Theory
Chapter5 Using the Art of Georges Seurat to Envision
Chapter6 Florence Nightingale's Definition of Nursing
Chapter7 Virginia Henderson's Definition of Nursing
Chapter8 Ernestine Wiedenbach's Helping Art of Clinical Nursing
Chapter9 Jean Watson's Theory of Human/Transpersonal Caring
PartIII Part III: Theories About Broad Nursing Practice Areas: Grand Theories
Chapter10 Envisioning Theories Through Mandala Art
Chapter11 Myra Estrin Levine's Conservation Model
Chapter12 Betty Neuman's Systems Model
Chapter13 Sister Callista Roy's Adaptation Model
Chapter14 Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Model
Chapter15 Madeleine Leininger's Culture Care: Diversity and Universality Theory
PartIV Part IV: Theories About Specific Nursing Actions, Processes, or Concepts: Middle-Range Theories
Chapter16 Envisioning Theories Through Origami Art
Chapter17 Ida Jean Orlando-Pelletier's Nursing Process Theory
Chapter18 Katharine Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort
Chapter19 Nola Pender's Health-Promotion Model
Chapter20 Hildegard Peplau's Interpersonal Relations in Nursing
Chapter21 Imogene King-- Conceptual System and Theory of Goal Attainment
Chapter22 Patricia Benner--Model of Skill Acquisition in Nursing
Chapter23 Afaf Ibrahim Meleis--Transitions Theory
PartPart V Part V: Theories that Defy Classification
Chapter24 Envisioning Theories That Defy Classification Through Space Photography
Chapter25 Martha Rogers's Unitary Human Beings
Chapter26 Margaret Newman's Health as Expanding Consciousness
Chapter27 Rosemarie Rizzo Parse--Theory of Human Becoming
PartPart VI Part VI: Conclusion
Chapter28 Further Development of Nursing Theory
Chapter29 Use of Information Technology by Nurse Theorists
Chapter30 Twentieth Anniversary of Nursing Theory on the World Wide Web