Nursing theorists & their theories
Practice Exam Answered Correctly.
Florence Nightingale - Answer Environment theory - Nurse manipulates patient's environment
Hildegard Peplau - Answer Interpersonal theory - Interpersonal relationships between patient and
nurse are very important
Virginia Henderson - Answer Need Theory - Nurses help patient perform Henderson's 14 basic needs
Dorothea Orem - Answer Self-care theory - Care for and help patient attain total self care
Imogene King - Answer Goal Attainment theory - Use communication to help patient reestablish
positive adaption to environment. Interpersonal as well.
Betty Neuman - Answer System model - Stress reduction is goal of systems model of nursing practice.
Nursing actions are in primary, secondary, or teritary level of prevention.
Madeleine Leininger - Answer Transcultural nursing - Caring is the central and unifying domain for
nursing. Provide care consistent with nursing's emerging science and knowledge.
Sister Calista Roy - Answer Adaptation theory - Identify types of demands placed on patient, assess
adaption to demands, and help patient adapt. Bases on they physiological, psychological, and
sociological, and dependence-independence adaptive modes.
Jean Watson - Answer Philosophy and Caring Model - Involves the philosophy and science of caring.
Promote health, restore patient to health, and prevent illness.
Benner and Wrubel - Answer Focus on patient's need for caring as a means of coping with stressors of
illness. Caring is central to the essence of nursing.
Practice Exam Answered Correctly.
Florence Nightingale - Answer Environment theory - Nurse manipulates patient's environment
Hildegard Peplau - Answer Interpersonal theory - Interpersonal relationships between patient and
nurse are very important
Virginia Henderson - Answer Need Theory - Nurses help patient perform Henderson's 14 basic needs
Dorothea Orem - Answer Self-care theory - Care for and help patient attain total self care
Imogene King - Answer Goal Attainment theory - Use communication to help patient reestablish
positive adaption to environment. Interpersonal as well.
Betty Neuman - Answer System model - Stress reduction is goal of systems model of nursing practice.
Nursing actions are in primary, secondary, or teritary level of prevention.
Madeleine Leininger - Answer Transcultural nursing - Caring is the central and unifying domain for
nursing. Provide care consistent with nursing's emerging science and knowledge.
Sister Calista Roy - Answer Adaptation theory - Identify types of demands placed on patient, assess
adaption to demands, and help patient adapt. Bases on they physiological, psychological, and
sociological, and dependence-independence adaptive modes.
Jean Watson - Answer Philosophy and Caring Model - Involves the philosophy and science of caring.
Promote health, restore patient to health, and prevent illness.
Benner and Wrubel - Answer Focus on patient's need for caring as a means of coping with stressors of
illness. Caring is central to the essence of nursing.
