used for fields of study in which the central focus is performance of a professional role.
Critical Theories
Used in academia to describe theories that help elucidate how social structures affect a wide variety of human experiences from art to social practices. In nursing, it helps explain how these structures as race, gender, etc., affect patient health
Florence Nightingale
Environmental Theory
Health
the degree of wellness or well-being that the client experiences.
Midlevel Theories
Focuses on exploration of concepts such as pain, self-esteem, learning and hardiness.
Conceptual Framework/Model or Grand Theories
Group of related ideas, statements or concepts
Theory
Supposition or system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given phenomenon.
Martha Rogers
Unitary Human Beings. Non-contact therapeutic touch
