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🔹Virginia Henderson

🔹Patricia Benner

🔹Madeleine M. Leininger

🔹Martha Elizabeth Rogers

🔹Faye Glenn Abdellah

🔹Imogene M. King

🔹Ida Jean Orlando-Pelletier

🔹Katharine Kolcaba

🔹Nancy Roper

🔹Alison J. Tierney

🔹Dorothy E. Johnson

🔹Jean Watson

🔹Hildegard E. Peplau

🔹Dorothea Elizabeth Orem

🔹Sister Callista Roy

🔹Betty Neuman

🔹Rosemarie Rizzo Parse

🔹Lydia Eloise Hall

🔹Joyce Travelbee

🔹Margaret A. Newman

🔹Winifred W. Logan

🔹Afaf Ibrahim Meleis

🔹Sr. Carolina S. Agravante

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List of Nursing Theories

🔹Roy Adaptation Model

🔹Neuman Systems Model

🔹Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory

🔹Johnson’s Behavioral System Model

🔹Meleis’s Transitions Theory

🔹Henderson’s Need Theory

🔹Lewin’s Change Theory

🔹Leininger’s Theory of Transcultural Nursing

🔹Benner’s Novice to Expert Model

🔹Abdellah’s 21 Nursing Problems Theory

🔹Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings

🔹Pender’s Health Promotion Model

🔹Parse’s Humanbecoming Theory

🔹Eriksson’s Caritative Caring Theory

🔹Watson’s Theory of Human Caring

🔹Nightingale’s Environmental Theory

🔹King’s Theory of Goal Attainment

🔹Hall’s Care, Core, and Cure Model

🔹Orlando’s Deliberative Nursing Process Theory

🔹Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations

🔹Orem’s Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory

🔹Roper-Logan-Tierney Activities of Living Model

🔹Agravante—Casagra Transformative Leadership Model

🔹Newman’s Health as Expanding Consciousness Theory

🔹Travelbee’s Human-to-Human Relationship Model

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