Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to nursing theory / Janet S. Hickman -- Nursing theory and clinical practice / Julia B. George -- Environmental model : Florence Nightingale / Marie L. Lobo -- Interpersonal relations in nursing : Hildegard E. Peplau / Janice Ryan Belcher -- Definition and components of nursing : Virginia Henderson / Marie L. Lobo -- Self-care deficit nursing theory : Dorothea E. Orem / Peggy Coldwell Foster -- Behavioral system model : Dorothy E. Johnson / Marie L. Lobo -- Nursing process discipline : Ida Jean Orlando / Julia B. George -- Other theories from the 1950s and 1960s / Peggy Coldwell Foster -- The conservation principles : a model for health : Myra E. Levine / Julia B. George -- Conceptual system and theory of goal attainment : Imogene M. King / Julia B. George -- Science of unitary human beings : Martha E. Rogers / Maryanne Garon -- Roy adaptation model : Sister Callista Roy / Julia Gallagher Galbreath -- The Neuman systems model : Betty Neuman / Julia B. George -- Other theories from the 1970s / Julia B. George -- Theory of culture care diversity and universality : Madeleine M. Leininger / Julia B. George -- Health as expanding consciousness : Margaret Newman / Julia B. George -- Theory of transpersonal caring : Jean Watson / Brenda P. Johnson and Jane H. Kelley -- Human becoming school of thought : Rosemarie Rizzo Parse / Janet S. Hickman -- The modeling and role-modeling theory : Erickson, Tomlin, and Swain / Noreen Cavan Frisch and Susan Stanwyck Bowman -- Health promotion model : Nola J. Pender / Julia B. George -- Philosophy of caring and expert nursing practice : Patricia Benner / Bobbe Ann Gray -- Other theories of the 1980s / Julia B. George and Janet S. Hickman -- Other nursing theories from the 1990s / Janet Hickman and Julia B. George.