Table of Contents: Nursing theory and the discipline of nursing A guide for the study of nursing theories for practice Choosing, evaluating, and implementing nursing theories for practice Florence Nightingale's legacy of caring and its applications Early conceptualizations about nursing Nurse-patient relationship theories Dorothy Johnson's behavioral system model and its applications Dorothea Orem's self-care deficit nursing theory Imogene King's theory of goal attainment Sister Callista Roy's adaptation model Betty Neuman's systems model Helen Erickson, Evelyn Tomlin, and Mary Ann Swain's theory of modeling and role modeling Barbara Dossey's theory of integral nursing Martha E. Rogers science of unitary human beings Rosemarie Rizzo Parse's humanbecoming paradigm Margaret Newman's theory of health as expanding consciousness Madeleine Leininger's theory of culture care diversity and universality Jean Watson's theory of human caring Theory of nursing as caring Transitions theory Katharine Kolcaba's comfort theory Joanne Duffy's quality-caring model Pamela Reed's theory of self-transcendence Patricia Liebr and Mary Jane Smith's story theory The community nursing practice model Rozzano Locsin's technological competency as caring in nursing Marilyn Anne Ray's theory of bureaucratic caring Troutman-Jordan's theory of successful aging Barrett's theory of power as knowing participation in change Marlaine Smith's theory of unitary caring Kristen Swanson's theory of caring.