HOLY INFANT COLLEGE

Tacloban City

Course Syllabus

THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING

Instructor: Atty. Vincent Q. Piga, MAN, RN, LPT

Course Description: The Course is designed to orient and familiarize the student with the
leading theorists in the history, development and growth of the nursing profession with the end in
view of "continuously improving practice with the guidance and collective wisdom in the science
and art of nursing" (Nathanielsz, Remegia. Preface on the book Theoretical Foundations of
Nursing by Octaviano and Balita).

Course Credit: Three (3) Units

Recommended Book: Theoretical Foundations of Nursing by Eufemia F. Octaviano and Carl E.

Balita, Ultimate Learning Series, 2008.

Course Outline:

I. Introduction to Nursing Theory

- Theory and Nursing Theory
- Nursing Defined

II. Rationale of Nursing Theories

III. Evolution of Nursing

IV. Four Ways of Knowing

V. Nursing Theorists
a. Florence Nightingale
b. Hildegard Peplau
c. Virginia Henderson
d. Joyce Travelbee
e. Betty Neuman
f. Dorothy Johnson
g. Imogene King
h. Dorothea Orem
i. Faye Glenn Abdellah
j. Sister Callista Roy
k. Madeleine Leininger
l. Margaret Jean Watson
m. Patricia Benner
n. Sister Letty G. Kuan
o. Carmencita M. Abaquin
p. Irma Bustamante
q. Elsie Antiporta-Tee
r. Maria Imelda T. Ocampo-Javier

Grading System: 75% Passing Rate on all quizzes, exams and reports/projects.

Evaluation: 20 point quiz per meeting, oral presentation of theorists, long exams

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