A selected list of prominent nursing theories with related resources from the professional literature generally not written by the theorists themselves. (Note: This list contains examples of articles from the professional literature, but is in now way comprehensive or even fully representative of all available materials.)
Adaptation Model - Sr. Callista Roy
Bureaucratic Caring (Theory of) - Marilyn Ray
Caritative Caring (Theory of) - Katie Eriksson
Fundamental Patterns of Knowing - Barbara Carper
Goal Attainment (Theory of) - Imogene King
Health as Expanding Consciousness Theory - Betty Newman
Health Promotion Model - Nola Pender
Holistic Theory/Modeling and Role-Modeling Theory - Helen Erickson (et al)
Human Becoming Theory - Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
Human to Human Relationship Model - Joyce Travellbee
Interpersonal Theory - Hildegard Peplau
Maternal Role Attainment Theory - Ramona Mercer
Need Theory - Virginia Henderson
Nursing Process Theory - Ida Jean Orlando
Power as Knowing Participation in Change (Theory of) - Elizabeth Barrett
Roper-Logan-Tierney Model of Nursing - Nancy Roper, Winifred Logan, Alison J. Tierney
Self-Care Deficit Theory - Dorothea Orem
Six Cs of Caring Model - Sr. Simone Roach
Systems Theory - Betty Neuman
Tidal Model - Phil Barker
Transcultural Nursing Theory - Madeline Leininger
Twenty-One Nursing Problems Theory - Faye Abdellah
Uncertainty in Illness Theory - Merle Mishel
Unitary Human Beings (Science of) - Martha Rogers
Watson's Caring Theory - Jean Watson