Nursing theories : a framework for professional practice / Kathleen Masters, DNS, RN, University of Southern Mississippi College of Nursing, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to theoretical nursing knowledge as the framework for practice -- Introduction to non-nursing theories that have influenced critical thinking in the discipline of nursing -- Environmental model of nursing : Florence Nightingale -- Fourteen components of basic nursing care : Virginia Henderson -- Philosophy and theory of transpersonal caring : Jean Watson -- Clinical wisdom in nursing practice : Patricia Benner -- Behavioral system model : Dorothy Johnson -- Interacting systems framework and theory of goal attainment : Imogene King -- Science of unitary human beings : Martha Rogers -- Roy adaptation model : Sister Callista Roy -- The Neuman systems model : Betty Neuman -- The conservation model : Myra Estrin Levine -- Self-care deficit theory of nursing : Dorothea Orem -- Theory of interpersonal relations : Hildegard Peplau -- Theory of culture care diversity and universality : Madeleine Leininger -- Nursing process theory : Ida Jean Orlando (Pelletier) -- Health as expanding consciousness : Margaret Newman -- The health promotion model : Nola J. Pender -- Theory of humanbecoming : Rosemarie Rizzo Parse -- The theory of nursing as caring : a model for transforming tractice : Anne Boykin and Savina O. Schoenhofer -- Modeling and role-modeling : Helen C. Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, Mary Ann P. Swain -- Transitions theory : Afaf Ibrahim Meleis -- Parent-child interaction model : Kathryn E. Barnard -- Maternal role attainment -- becoming a mother : Ramona T. Mercer -- Self-transcendence theory : Pamela G. Reed -- Theory of chronic sorrow : Georgene Gaskill Eakes, Mary Lermann Burke, and Margaret A. Hainsworth -- Theory of caring : Kristen M. Swanson -- Theory of comfort : Katharine Kolcaba -- Postpartum depression theory : Cheryl Tatano Beck -- Uncertainty in illness theory : Merle H. Mishel -- Theory of bureaucratic caring : Marilyn Anne Ray -- Synergy model for patient care : The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.