Examples of Nursing Models

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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