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NURSING THEORY
Nursing Theory
Utilization & Application
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Third Edition

By
Martha Alligood, PhD, RN, ANEF, Professor and Director, PhD program, College of Nursing, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Ann Marriner Tomey, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Emeritus (Retired), College of Nursing, Health and Human Services, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, USA

Description
This valuable text offers clearly defined and practical ways to integrate nursing theory into actual nursing practice. Intended as a companion title to Nursing Theorists and Their Work, Nursing Theory goes beyond the presentation of the theories to help readers determine concrete ways to apply these often abstract concepts in everyday practice.

Contents


PART I: Conceptualization


1. The Nature of Knowledge Needed for Nursing Practice

2. Nursing Models: Normal Science for Nursing Practice

3. Philosophies, Models, and Theories: Critical Thinking Structures

4. Philosophies, Models, and Theories: Moral Obligations



PART II: Application




Section 1: Nursing Philosophies


5. Nightingale's Philosophy in Nursing Practice

6. Watson's Philosophy in Nursing Practice

7. Benner's Philosophy in Nursing Practice



Section 2: Nursing Models


8. Johnson's Behavioral System Model in Nursing Practice

9. King's Conceptual System and Theory of Goal Attainment in Nursing Practice

10. Levine's Conservation Model in Nursing Practice

11. Neumann's Systems Model in Nursing Practice

12. Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory in Practice

13. Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings in Nursing Practice

14. Roy's Adaptation Model in Nursing Practice



Section 3: Nursing Theories


15. Orlando's Nursing Process Theory in Nursing Practice

16. Modeling and Role-Modeling Theory in Nursing Practice

17. Mercer's Becoming a Mother Theory in Nursing Practice

18. Leininger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality in Nursing Practice

19. Parse's Theory of Human Becoming in Nursing Practice

20. Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness in Nursing Practice



PART III: Expansion


21. Areas for Further Development of Theory-Based Nursing Practice

22. Nursing Philosophies, Models, and Theories: A Focus on the Future


Bibliographic details
Paperback, 560 pages, publication date: DEC-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-03133-2
ISBN-10: 0-323-03133-1
Imprint: MOSBY


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