NURSING LICENSURE EXAM SELF-REVIEW
By Angel Garcia Carbajal, BSN
Summary of Nursing Theories
Theorist Goal of Nursing
Hildegard Peplau To develop interpersonal
(1952) interaction between client and
nurse
Faye Abdellah (1960) To deliver nursing care for whole
individual
Virginia Henderson To help client gain independence as
(1964) rapidly as possible
Joyce Travelbee To help client and family to cope
(1966) with and find meaning in
experience of illness
Dorothy Johnson To reduce stress so that client can
(1968) recover as quickly as possible
Martha Rogers (1970) To help client achieve maximal
level of wellness
Imogene King (1971) To use communication to help
client to reestablish positive
adaptation to environment
Dorothea Orem To care for and help client to attain
(1971) self-care
Betty Neuman (1972) To assist individuals, families, and
groups to attain and maintain
maximal level of total wellness by
purposeful interventions
Myra Levine (1973) To use conservation activities
aimed at optimal use of client’s
resources
Sister Callista Roy To identify types o demands placed
(1976) on client and client’s adaptation to
them
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Framework for practice
Interpersonal theoretical model
emphasizing relationship between client
and nurse
Problem solving based on 21 nursing
problems
Henderson’s 14 basic needs
Interpersonal theory emphasizing nurse-
client relationship
Adaptation model based on seven
behavioral sub-systems
“Unitary man” evolving along life process
Nursing process as dynamic interpersonal
state between nurse and client
Self-care deficit theory
Systems model of nursing practice having
stress reduction as its goal; nursing actions
in one of three levels: primary, secondary,
or tertiary
Adaptation model of human as integrated
whole based on “four conservation
principles of nursing”
Adaptation model based on four adaptive
modes; physiological, psychological,
sociological, and independence
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By Angel Garcia Carbajal, BSN
Jean Watson (1979) To promote health, restore clients Philosophy and science of caring: caring is
to health, and prevent illness an interpersonal process comprising 2
(Marriner-Tomey, 1989) interventions that result in meeting human
needs (Torres, 1986)
Ref: (From Basic Nursing Theory and Practice, Potter and Perry)
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NURSING THEORIES
Erickson, Tomlin & Swain - Modeling & Role- Parse, Rosemarie Rizzo - Theory of Human
Modeling Theory (MRM) Becoming

Fitzpatrick, Joyce J. - Life Perspective Rhythm Peplau, Hildegard E. - Interpersonal Relations

Model Model

Hall, Lydia E. - Core, Care and Cure Model
Henderson, Virginia - Definition of Nursing
King, Imogene M. - Systems Framework and
Theory of Goal Attainment
Rogers, Martha E. - The Science of Unitary
Human Beings
Roper, Logan & Tierney - The Elements of
Nursing: A Model for Nursing Based on a Model
of Living

Kolcaba, Katharine - Theory of Comfort Roy, Callista - The Roy Adaptation Model

Leininger, Madeleine - Transcultural Nursing Watson, Jean - Theory of Caring in Nursing

Model
Wiedenbach, Ernestine - The Helping Art of
Levine, Myra Estrin - The Conservation Model Clinical Nursing

Martinsen, Kari - Nursing Philosophy

Mercer, Ramona T. - Maternal Role Attainment

Neuman, Betty - The Neuman Systems Model

Neuman, Margaret - Health as Expanding

Consciousness

Nightingale, Florence - (Systemic approach to

health care)

Orem, Dorothea E. - Self-Care Deficit Nursing

Theory

Orlando, Ida Jean - Nursing Process Theory