Selected Grand Theories

Grand Theories

Nursing Theories

Early nursing theorists were drawing from a different experience than we do today , but today 's nursing would probably not be what it is if it were not for the early Grand theorists . Florence Nightingale , Henderson Peplau , and King all had strong influences on nursing in their own time and continue to influence nursing and nursing theory today . This will discuss that influence

Florence Nightingale , though seen as Grand theorists did not really have a theory she really had a broad philosophy . Her basic tenet was

healing and the philosophy consisted of healing , leadership , and global action (McEwen Wills , 2007 . Everything was focused on the needs of the patient . Nightingale felt that the physician was the one to write s and it was the responsibility of the nurse to carry those s out . She felt that anticipating and meeting the needs of the patient fell in the realm of the nurse . Though Florence Nightingales work is not well organized in its thought , it has to be remembered that she was in the process of theorizing when women were still handmaidens (Kikuchi 2008

Virginia Henderson was an educator and author who is known as the mother of nursing because of her influence throughout the world of nursing . She created with some of her colleagues , the basic curriculum of nursing which was centered around patient centered care which was done with nursing problems and separate from a medical diagnosis (Jasorsky , 2010 . Henderson felt that here theories of...