Major Nursing Theorists and Theories
- Helen Erickson
- Carl O. Helvie - Helvie Energy Theory
- Virginia Henderson - Henderson's need theory
- Imogene King
- Madeleine Leininger
- Betty Neuman - Neuman systems model
- Margaret A. Newman - Health as expanding consciousness theory
- Dorothea Orem - Self-care deficit nursing theory
- Ida Jean Orlando (Pelletier)
- Ramona T Mercer - Maternal role attainment theory
- Anne Casey - Casey's model of nursing
- Hildegard Peplau - Theory of interpersonal relations
- Rosemarie Rizzo-Parse - Human becoming theory
- Isabel Hampton Robb
- Nancy Roper, Winifred W. Logan, and Alison J. Tierney - Roper-Logan-Tierney model of nursing
- Martha E. Rogers - Science of unitary human beings
- Callista Roy - Adaptation model of nursing
- Katharine Kolcaba
- Phil Barker - Tidal Model
- Moyra Allen - McGill model of nursing
- Erickson, Tomlin & Swain - Modeling and Role-Modeling
- Katie Eriksson
- Dr. Jean Watson
- Paterson & Zderad
- Boykin & Schoenhofer
Purposely omitted from this list is that most famous of all nurses, Florence Nightingale. Nightingale never actually formulated a theory of nursing science but was posthumously accredited with same by others who categorized her personal journaling and communications into a theoretical framework.
Also not included are the many nurses who improved on these theorists' ideas without developing their own theoretical vision.
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