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Nursing Students' Guide to Evidence Based Research: Nursing Theories

Resources for Nursing Students

One Student's Perspective

Mid-level theorists

Christina Sieloff: Theory of Group Power within Organizations
Katharine Kolcaba: Theory of Comfort
Ramona T. Mercer: Maternal Role Attainment
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses: The AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care

Theories

Imogene King
 Theory of Goal Attainment
Faye Glenn Abdellah:

Twenty-One Nursing Problems

Erickson, Tomlin & Swain
Modeling & Role-Modeling Theory (MRM)
Virgina Henderson
Need Theory
Madeleine Leininger
Transcultural Nursing Model
Myra Estrin Levine
Conservation Model
Margaret A. Newman
Health as Expanding Consciousness
Ida Jean Orlando
Nursing Process Theory
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
Humanbecoming Paradigm
Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad
Humanistic Nursing Theory 
Hildegard E. Peplau
Interpersonal Relations Model
Martha E. Rogers
Science of Unitary Human Beings
Sister Callista Roy
Roy Adaptation Model
Jean Watson: Theory of Caring in Nursing
Watson's Caring Theory Homepage
Ruth A. Wittmann-Price
Wittmann-Price Theory of Emancipated Decision-making
Dorothy Orem
Self Care Deficit Theory