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The nursing profession has evolved greatly over time, moving from dependence upon
total medical direction providing basic care into an independent practice modality
with its own nursing theory practice, nursing models, and distinct nursing interventions.
Nursing theories have been developed by a large number of leaders in the nursing field;
below is a list of major nursing theorists who have contributed to the development of
professional nursing practice into what it is today:
Nursing Theorists
- Isabel Hampton Robb
- Virginia Henderson
- Helen C. Erickson
- Isabel Hampton Robb
- Imogene King
- Madeleine Leininger
- Betty Neuman
- Dorothea E. Orem
- Ida Jean Orlando (Pelletier)
- Hildegard Peplau
- Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
- Martha E. Rogers
- Sister Callista Roy
- Katherine Kolcaba
- Katie Eriksson
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