Nursing Theorists and Their Work

This work is a comprehensive, authoratitive text on the history and development of nursing theory. This unique text should give students a firm foundation from which to analyse individual theories and make decisions about their application in the clinical setting. Features new to this edition chapters focused on individual nurse theorists have been reorganised into three units - philosophies of nursing, conceptual models or grand theories, and middle range theories; a new chapter has been added to describe Nola Pender's health belief model; all chapters have been updated to include theorists' most recent works and any changes in how their theories are used and accepted by the nursing community.