Nursing theorists

[kp1987]

I have to write a paper on a nursing theorist and it made me wonder who is everyone's favourite nursing theorist or what theory do you find helpful in your practice or learning?

[kp1987]

Esme12 & grntea are my current favorite theorists who follow the philosophy of that sage daytonite, which is basically: the more you know and understand, the better you will be as a nurse.[/quote']

Haha I would have to agree wit this. Esme12 and grntea are helping me get through nursing school forsure! thank you very much you two!

[malestunurse]

I work psych, so I've become fond of Phil Barker's Tidal Model of Mental Health Nursing. Apparently Phil is pretty anti-psychiatry and since I'm going for my APN in psych I really want to take a different, more nurse-like stance to practice than the docs and PAs I'll be working with...I plan on ordering some of his writings and picking his brain for sure sometime between now and graduation.

Tidal/strengths based model is what they teach at my university I feel it is very good. We even use his text book!