NURSING THEORIST

IDA JEAN ORLANDO'S NURSING THEORY Ida Jean Orlando Orlando was a first generation Irish American born on August 12, 1926. She dedicated her life studying nursing and graduated in 1947 ans received a Bachelor of Science degree in public health nursing from St. John's University, New York in 1951. In 1954, she completed her Master of Arts in Mental Health consultation from Columbia University, New York. While studying she also worked intermittently and sometimes concurrently as a staff nurse in OB, MS, ER as a supervisor in a general hospital, and as an assistant director and a teacher of several courses. in 1961, she was married to Robert Pelletier and lived in the Boston area. As for being a respectable and credible role-model, Orlando was well educated with many advanced degrees in nursing.  After all the great works of Orlando her good works ended on November 28, 2007 when she died at the age of 81 .

By Filua oluwakemi and Jaja Florence CALLISTA ROY ADAPTATION MODEL Description of The Nursing Theorist Callista Lorraine Roy was born October 14th, 1939 in Los Angeles, California She is a member of the Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet, she is a nun, a nurse theorist, writer, lecturer, researcher and teacher. Professor and Nurse Theorist at the Boston College of Nursing in Chestnut Hill Received her BSN from Mount Saint Mary's College in Los Angeles in 1963, received her MSN from University of California, Los Angeles in 1966 Worked as a pediatric staff nurse, where she noticed the amazing resiliency of the children she cared for, and their ability to adapt to the major physical and psychological changes they were experiencing. lmpressed by this adaptation, Roy worked towards an appropriate conceptual framework for nursing. It was there that her Adaptation Model was developed, in a seminar with fellow theorist Dorothy E. Johnson in 1965. In 1968, her alma mat...

Marilyn Ray Theory of Bureucratic Caring Marilyn A. Ray, RN, PhD, CTN-A Professor Emeritus Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, FL 33431 Pages Home Practice Background Educational Background Research Background Scholarship & Teaching Background Books Theory of Bureaucratic Caring The theory was generated from qualitative research involving health professionals and patients in the hospital setting. The theory implies that there is a dialectical relationship (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) between the human (person & nurse) dimension of spiritual-ethical caring and the structural (nursing, environment) dimensions of the bureaucracy or organizational culture (technological, economic, political, legal and social...