27 Theorists and Theories About Nursing
27 Theorists and Theories About Nursing and Health
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There are different nursing theories and health theories to help us explain the phenomena we are experiencing in health. Since nursing knowledge is the inclusive total of the philosophies, theories, research, and practice wisdom of the discipline, these theories define what nursing is or what sets it apart from different professions.
Below is a shortlist of different health and nursing theories.
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Abraham Maslow
Hierarchy of Needs
Physiologic Needs: breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis, excretion.
Safety Needs: security of: body, employment, resources, morality, family, health, property.
Love and Belonging Needs: friendship, sexual intimacy, family
Esteem Needs: self-esteem, confidence, achievement, respect of others, respect by others
Self-actualization Needs: morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts.
Adolf Meyer
Believes in totality of man or the holistic approach to man.
Patients could best be understood through consideration of their life situations.
Alfred Adler
Superiority and inferiority complex and birth order.
He emphasized that one’s birth order as having an influence on the style of life and the strengths and weaknesses in one’s psychological make up.
Anne Boykin & Savina Schoenhofer All persons are caring and nursing is a response to unique social call.
Betty Neuman
She developed the Health Care Systems Model.
Nursing is concerned with all the variables affecting an individual’s response to stress, which are interpersonal, intrapersonal and extrapersonal in nature.
Carl Jung
Introversion and extroversion–persona
Dorothea Orem
Developed self-care, self-care deficit and nursing systems theory.
Nurses have to supply care when the patients cannot provide care to themselves.
By measuring the clients deficit relative to self care needs.
Dorothy Johnson
Conceptualized the Behavioral Systems Model.
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There are different nursing theories and health theories to help us explain the phenomena we are experiencing in health. Since nursing knowledge is the inclusive total of the philosophies, theories, research, and practice wisdom of the discipline, these theories define what nursing is or what sets it apart from different professions.
Below is a shortlist of different health and nursing theories.
Contents [show]
Abraham Maslow
Hierarchy of Needs
Physiologic Needs: breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis, excretion.
Safety Needs: security of: body, employment, resources, morality, family, health, property.
Love and Belonging Needs: friendship, sexual intimacy, family
Esteem Needs: self-esteem, confidence, achievement, respect of others, respect by others
Self-actualization Needs: morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts.
Adolf Meyer
Believes in totality of man or the holistic approach to man.
Patients could best be understood through consideration of their life situations.
Alfred Adler
Superiority and inferiority complex and birth order.
He emphasized that one’s birth order as having an influence on the style of life and the strengths and weaknesses in one’s psychological make up.
Anne Boykin & Savina Schoenhofer All persons are caring and nursing is a response to unique social call.
Betty Neuman
She developed the Health Care Systems Model.
Nursing is concerned with all the variables affecting an individual’s response to stress, which are interpersonal, intrapersonal and extrapersonal in nature.
Carl Jung
Introversion and extroversion–persona
Dorothea Orem
Developed self-care, self-care deficit and nursing systems theory.
Nurses have to supply care when the patients cannot provide care to themselves.
By measuring the clients deficit relative to self care needs.
Dorothy Johnson
Conceptualized the Behavioral Systems Model.