23 Nursing Theorist

1. Focused on how mother-infant interaction influences child development.
4. Focused on behaviors that increase well-being, not just prevent illness.
8. Defined nursing as assisting individuals in activities contributing to health or peaceful death.
10. Introduced transcultural nursing, stressing care within the context of culture.
12. Believed illness is a manifestation of an evolving pattern of consciousness.
15. Nursing pioneer who brought hospice care to the United States.
17. Her theory highlights caring as the essence of nursing and healing relationships.
19. She emphasized fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, and diet in patient recovery.
22. Described humans as “ever changing beings” who choose their own health experiences.
23. Described nursing as an art of helping, guided by philosophy and purpose.

2. Her behavioral model compares the patient to a system of interrelated subsystems.
3. Classified 21 health-related issues that nurses must address for patients.
5. Her nursing theory centers on a patient’s ability to care for themselves.
6. Wrote a famous model describing skill acquisition from beginner to expert nurse.
7. Viewed nursing as promoting adaptation in four modes: physiologic, self-concept, role function, interdependence.
9. Psychiatric nurse who explained nursing as a therapeutic, interpersonal process.
11. Her model views a person as an open system interacting with internal and external stressors.
13. Her theory divides nursing into three aspects: care, cure, and core.
14. Saw humans as irreducible energy fields in constant interaction with the environment.
16. Saw nursing as establishing human-to-human relationships to help patients find meaning in suffering.
18. Canadian theorist who emphasized nursing as assisting individuals in their health experiences.
20. Believed health goals are achieved through nurse–patient interaction and communication.
21. Theorist who studied life changes and how people adapt during transitions.