Nursing Theory
Submitted by Jennifer Lanouette, AHIP, Ida S. Charlton Medical Library, Charlton Memorial Hospital, Fall River, MA; edited by Lynne M. Fox, AHIP
While students may regard the topic of nursing theory with apprehension, librarians need to be comfortable with resources that address the subject because it is a perennial favorite among nursing school faculty. Because of the proliferation of nursing theories and theorists in recent years, information seekers should begin their search at general sites (such as those listed here) and then narrow down to more specific searches using theorists’ names (e.g., Jean Watson) or theory names (e.g., “Theory of Human Caring”) as keywords.
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NOTE: Only noncommercial Websites are linked.
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This Website—from Cardinal Stritch University Library, Milwaukee, WI—contains bibliographies for over twenty-five nursing theorists with brief introductory descriptions of their theories. Extensive book and journal sources are listed, accessible by theorist name or as a combined portable document format file
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Maintained by the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, as an ongoing international collaborative effort, the Nursing Theory Page provides links to Websites focused on specific theorists. Detailed instructions for searching CINAHL for nursing theorists should be useful for library patrons. Submissions of Web pages devoted to nursing theorists who are not currently represented are invited.
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The Mayo Clinic Libraries, Mayo College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, provide bibliographies for a select group of well-known nursing theorists. Bibliographies include books, videos, journal articles, and Websites. Specific book chapters are identified, and a video synopsis is provided.
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From Australian nursing agency Swingshift Nurses, Nursing A–Z is divided into two QUICKfind sections: Nursing Theory and Theory Resources. Nursing Theory is further divided into more specific categories, such as Grand Theory, Midrange Theory, and Nursing Models. Theory Resources include Teaching Tools, Books, Journals, Scholars & Experts, Forums, Conferences, and Nurse Philosophers.
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Owned and maintained by Nurse Becky Sisk, NurseScribe provides links to many nursing theory Websites and offers bibliographies on a select group of nursing theorists. The theories are listed by category—such as Early Nurse Theorists, Anthropological Models, Energy Field Models, or Humanistic Models—and then by theorist names. Many entries offer descriptive summaries about the theories that are covered.
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Jones and Bartlett Publishers provide a virtual art gallery of creative works related to nursing theory. The works consist of nursing students’ artistic impressions of nursing theory using the concepts presented in Sitzman and Eichelberger’s book, Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists: A Creative Beginning.
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NOTE: Only noncommercial Websites are linked.
source: MLA News, November/December 2007, Carla J, Funk, ed., Medical Library Association. Chicago, IL.
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