Examples of Nursing Models

Saturday, September 4, 2010

The models used vary greatly between institutions and countries. However, different branches of nursing have different "preferred" nursing models. These are summarized below :

Family nursing

* Family centered care
* Self - care deficit

Psychiatric nursing

* Roy's model of nursing
* Tidal Model

Children's nursing

* Casey's model of nursing

Prenatal nursing

* Ramona T Mercer maternal role attainment

Adult nursing

* Nightingale's model of nursing
* Roper, Logan and Tierney
* Orem's Model of Nursing

Community and rehabilitation nursing

* Orem's Model of Nursing

Critical care nursing

* Synergy model of nursing

Holistic nursing

* Rogers: Science of Unitary Human Beings
* McGill Model of Nursing
* Parse: Human Becoming
* Erickson, Tomlin & Swain: Modeling and Role-Modeling
* Newman: Health as Expanding Consciousness
* Paterson & Zderad: Humanistic Nursing
* Boykin & Schoenhofer: Nursing as Caring

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