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Margaret A. Newman (October 10, 1933 - December 18, 2018) was an American nurse, university professor and nursing theorist. She authored the theory of health as expanding consciousness, which was influenced by earlier theoretical work by Martha E. Rogers, one of her mentors from graduate school.
She stated in her nursing notes that nursing "is an act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery" (Nightingale 1860/1969), [2] that it involves the nurse's initiative to configure environmental settings appropriate for the gradual restoration of the patient's health, and that external factors associated with the patient's surroundings affect life or biologic ...
Ida Jean Orlando (August 12, 1926 – November 28, 2007) was an American nurse whose theory has significant relevance for nursing in many countries worldwide. [1]Orlando graduated as a nurse from New York Medical College in 1947.
Virginia Avenel Henderson (November 30, 1897 – March 19, 1996) was an American nurse, researcher, theorist, and writer. [1]Henderson is famous for a definition of nursing: "The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the ...
Kathryn Elaine Barnard (April 16, 1938 – June 27, 2015) was a nurse known for her discovery of the role mother-newborn interactions have in early childhood development. [ 1 ] Early life and education
Though some nurses and doctors were beginning to become skeptical of the miasma theory in the 19th century, there were no other prevailing explanations for epidemics and infections. Florence Nightingale, Ignaz Semmelweis, and John Snow understood that people could get sick from objects, water, or hands that were contaminated by bodily fluids or ...
Pages in category "Nursing theory" ... Helvie energy theory of nursing and health; K. Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort; L. Levine's conservation model for nursing; N.
The theory of human caring, first developed by Watson in 1979, is patient care that involves a more holistic treatment for patients. As opposed to just using science to care for and heal patients, at the center of the theory of human caring is the idea that being more attentive and conscious during patient interactions allows for more effective and continuous care with a deeper personal ...