List of Nursing Theorist
# Nursing Theorist Theory
1 Florence Nightingale Environmental Theory
2 Hildegard E. Peplau Theory of Interpersonal Relations
3 Virginia Henderson Nursing Need Theory
4 Faye Glenn Abdellah 21 Nursing Problem Theory
5 Ernestine Wiedenbach The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing
6 Lydia E. Hall Care, Cure, Core Theory also known as the “Three
Cs
7 Joyce Travelbee Human-to-Human Relationship Model
8 Kathryn E. Barnard Health Assessment Model
9 Evelyn Adam development of models and theories on the
concept of nursing
10 Nancy Roper, Winifred Logan, and A Model for Nursing Based on a Model of Living
Alison J. Tierney
11 Ida Jean Orlando Nursing Process Theory.
12 Jean Watson Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring.
13 Marilyn Anne Ray Theory of Bureaucratic Caring
14 Patricia Benner Caring, Clinical Wisdom, and Ethics in Nursing
Practice
15 Kari Martinsen Philosophy of Caring
16 Katie Eriksson Theory of Carative Caring
17 Myra Estrin Levine Conservation Model, “Nursing is human
interaction.”
18 Martha E. Rogers Theory of Human Beings
19 Dorothea E. Orem Self-Care Theory
20 Imogene M. King Conceptual System and Middle-Range Theory of
Goal Attainment
21 Betty Neuman Neuman’s System Model
22 Sister Callista Roy Adaptation Model
23 Dorothy E. Johnson Behavioral System Model
24 Anne Boykin and Savina O. The Theory of Nursing as Caring: A Model for
Schoenhofer Transforming Practice
25 Afaf Ibrahim Meleis Transitions Theory
26 Nola J. Pender Health Promotion Model
27 Madeleine M. Leininger Culture Care Theory of Diversity and Universality
28 Margaret A. Newman Health as Expanding Consciousness
29 Rosemarie Rizzo Parse Human Becoming Theory
30 Helen C. Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, Modeling and Role-Modeling
and Mary Ann P. Swain
31 Gladys L. Husted and James H. Symphonological Bioethical Theory
Husted
32 Ramona T. Mercer Maternal Role Attainment—Becoming a Mother
33 Merle H. Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Theory
34 Pamela G. Reed Self-Transcendence Theory
# Nursing Theorist Theory
1 Florence Nightingale Environmental Theory
2 Hildegard E. Peplau Theory of Interpersonal Relations
3 Virginia Henderson Nursing Need Theory
4 Faye Glenn Abdellah 21 Nursing Problem Theory
5 Ernestine Wiedenbach The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing
6 Lydia E. Hall Care, Cure, Core Theory also known as the “Three
Cs
7 Joyce Travelbee Human-to-Human Relationship Model
8 Kathryn E. Barnard Health Assessment Model
9 Evelyn Adam development of models and theories on the
concept of nursing
10 Nancy Roper, Winifred Logan, and A Model for Nursing Based on a Model of Living
Alison J. Tierney
11 Ida Jean Orlando Nursing Process Theory.
12 Jean Watson Philosophy and Theory of Transpersonal Caring.
13 Marilyn Anne Ray Theory of Bureaucratic Caring
14 Patricia Benner Caring, Clinical Wisdom, and Ethics in Nursing
Practice
15 Kari Martinsen Philosophy of Caring
16 Katie Eriksson Theory of Carative Caring
17 Myra Estrin Levine Conservation Model, “Nursing is human
interaction.”
18 Martha E. Rogers Theory of Human Beings
19 Dorothea E. Orem Self-Care Theory
20 Imogene M. King Conceptual System and Middle-Range Theory of
Goal Attainment
21 Betty Neuman Neuman’s System Model
22 Sister Callista Roy Adaptation Model
23 Dorothy E. Johnson Behavioral System Model
24 Anne Boykin and Savina O. The Theory of Nursing as Caring: A Model for
Schoenhofer Transforming Practice
25 Afaf Ibrahim Meleis Transitions Theory
26 Nola J. Pender Health Promotion Model
27 Madeleine M. Leininger Culture Care Theory of Diversity and Universality
28 Margaret A. Newman Health as Expanding Consciousness
29 Rosemarie Rizzo Parse Human Becoming Theory
30 Helen C. Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, Modeling and Role-Modeling
and Mary Ann P. Swain
31 Gladys L. Husted and James H. Symphonological Bioethical Theory
Husted
32 Ramona T. Mercer Maternal Role Attainment—Becoming a Mother
33 Merle H. Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Theory
34 Pamela G. Reed Self-Transcendence Theory
