Introduction to nursing theory / Marilyn E. Parker -- Studying nursing theory: choosing, analyzing, evaluating / Marilyn E. Parker -- Guides for study of theories for practice and administration / Marilyn E. Parker -- Evaluating nursing theory resources / Marilyn E. Parker -- Florence Nightingale's legacy of caring and its applications / Lynne M. Hektor Dumphy -- Hildegard E. Peplau's process of practice-based theory development and its applications / Ann R. Peden -- Twentieth-century nursing: Weidenback, Henderson, and Orlando's theories and their applications / Theresa Gesse & Marcia Dombro, Shirley C. Gordon, Maude R. Rittman -- Dorothy Johnson's behavioral system model and its applications / Bonnie Holaday -- Myra Levine's conservation model and its applications / Karen Moore Schaefer -- Lydia Hall: the care, core, and cure model and its applications / Theris A. Touhy and Nettie Birnbach -- Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad's humanistic nursing theory and its applications / Susan Kleiman -- Dorothy E. Orem's: self-care deficit nursing theory / Dorothea E. Orem -- Applications of Dorothy Orem's self-care deficity nursing theory / Marjorie A. Isenberg.

Martha E. Rogers' science of unitary human beings / Violet M. Malinski -- Applications of Rogers' science of unitary human beings / Howard K. Butcher -- Rosemarie Rizzo Parse's human becoming school of thought / Rosemarie Rizzo Parse -- Applications of Parse's human becoming school of thought / Gail J. Mitchell, Sandra Schmidt Bunkers, Debra Bournes -- Margaret A. Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness and its applications / Margaret Dexheimer Pharris -- Imogene M. King's theory of goal attainment / Imogene King -- Applications of King's theory of goal attainment / Christina Leibold Sieloff, Maureen Frey, Mary Killeen -- Sister Callista Roy's adaptation model and its applications / Sister Callista Roy and Lin Zhan -- Betty Neuman: the Neuman systems model and global applications / Patricia D. Aylward -- Jean Watson's theory of human caring / Jean Watson -- Application of Jean Watson's theory of human caring / Terri Kaye Woodward -- Madeleine Leininger's theory of culture care diversity and universality / Madeleine M. Leininger -- Application of Leininger's theory of culture care diversity and universality / Marilyn R. McFarland -- Anne Boykin and Savina O. Schoenhofer's nursing as caring theory / Anne Boykin and Savina O. Schoenhofer.

Kristin M. Swanson: a program of research on caring / Kristen M. Swanson -- Marilyn Anne Ray's theory of bureaucratic caring / Marilyn Anne Ray -- Applications of Marilyn Ray's theory of bureaucratic caring / Marian C. Turkel -- Technological competency as caring and the practice of knowing persons as whole / Rozzano C. Locsin -- Developing a community nursing practice model / Marilyn E. Parker and Charlotte D. Barry.