This text outlines historical and newer nursing theories, philosophies, and conceptual models. After an overview of nursing theory and its application to professional practice, chapters address philosophies, major theoretical models and theories, and middle-range theories, with background on the theorists, analysis of the theory, and applications. They include the environmental model of nursing, transpersonal caring, clinical wisdom, the behavioral system model, the Neuman systems model, the theory of interpersonal relations, nursing process theory, the health promotion model, the parent-child interaction model, self-transcendence theory, the theory of caring, and others. This edition has illustrations in each chapter, three additional theories (transitions theory, uncertainty in illness, and postpartum depression theory), a new chapter on non-nursing theories that serve as a foundation to nursing theory, and examples of theories in research or practice. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)