1. Developing the discipline of nursing through modeling -- 2. Nursing theory and research: understanding the connections -- 3. The structuring of nursing practice -- 4. Integration -- 5. Modeling nursing from a realist point of view: Orem's self-care deficit nursing theory -- 6. Modeling nursing from an energy field perspective: Rogers' science of unitary human beings -- 7. Modeling nursing from unitary and existential perspectives: Parse's theory of human becoming -- 8. Modeling nursing from a systems perspective: the Neuman systems model -- 9. Modeling nursing from a transactions systems perspective: King's conceptual system and theory of goal attainment -- 10. Modeling nursing from an adaptation perspective: the Roy adaptation model -- 11. Modeling nursing from the perspective of health: Pender's health promotion model -- 12. Modeling nursing from the perspective of human relations: Peplau's theory of interpersonal relations -- 13. Modeling nursing from a carin perspective: Watson's transpersonal nursing and the theory of human caring -- Epilogue. The integration of nursing theory and research for practice
