THEORETICAL FOUNDATION IN NURSING

First Semester, SY 2021-2022

Evolution of Nursing
A. Introduction to Nursing Theory
1.History of Nursing Theory
2.Significance for the:
•Discipline
•Profession
B. History and Philosophy of Science
1.Rationalism
2.Empiricism
3.Early Twentieth Century Views
4.Emergent Views
C. Structure of Nursing Knowledge
1.Structure Level
2.Metaparadigm
3.Philosophy
4.Conceptual Models
5.Theory
6.Middle-range theory

Nursing Theorists and their Works

A. Nursing Philosophies
1.Nightingale’s Environmental Theory
2.Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring
3. Patricia Benner’s Stages of Nursing Expertise Nursing
Philosophies
4.Katie Eriksson’s Caritative Caring Theory
B. Nursing Conceptual Models
1.Roger’s Science of Unitary Human Being
2.Dorothea Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Model
3.Imogene King’s General Systems Framework
4.Betty Neuman’s Systems Model
5.Sr. Calista Roy’s Adaptation Model
6.Dorothy Johnson’s Behavioral System Model
C. Nursing Theories
1.Hildegard Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relationship
2.Ida Jean Orlando’s Theory of Deliberative Nursing Process
3.Joyce Travelbee’s Human to Human Relationship
4.Lydia Hall’s CORE, CARE, CURE
5.Faye Glenn Abdellah’s 21 Nursing Problems
6.Virginia Henderson’s Need Theory
7.Nola Pender’s Health Promotion Model; Nursing Theories
8.Madeleine Leininger’s Theory of Culture Care Diversity & Universality
 9.Margaret Newman’s Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness
10. Rosemarie Parse’s Theory of Human Becoming
11. Ernestine Wiedenbach’s The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing

Theories Relevant to Nursing Practice

1.Abraham Maslow’s Human Needs Theory
2.Sullivan’s Transactional Analysis
3.Von Bertalanffy’s General Systems Theory
4.Lewin’s Change Theory
5.Erikson’s Psychosocial Development
6.Kohlberg’s Moral Development

Local Theories and Models of Nursing Intervention (Phil. Setting)

1.Locsin’s Technological Nursing as Caring Model
2.Agravante’s CASAGRA Transformative Leadership Model
3.Divinagracia’s COMPOSURE Model
4.Kuan’s Retirement and Role Discontinuity Model
5.Abaquin’s PREPARE ME Holistic Nursing Intervention
6.Laurente’s Theory of Nursing Practice and Career
7.Synchronicity in Human-Space-Time: A Theory of Nursing Engagement in a
Global Community

ABIGAIL FILIO MONGE, RN, MAN

Instructor