For this project, you will select and critique a nursing theory of your choice.

The following are some conceptual models and theories you may choose from; however, you may choose any nurse theorist:

• Betty Neuman –
• Dorothea Orem – Self-Care Deficit Theory
• Dorothy Johnson – Behaviorial System Model
• Faye G. Abdallah – Patient-Centered Approaches Theory
• Florence Nightingale Environmental Model
• Hildegard Peplau – Interpersonal Process Theory
• Ida Jean Orlando – Nursing Process
• Imogene King –
• Jean Watson – Nursing as Caring Theory

• Madeleine Lininger – Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
• Margaret Newman – Health Expanding Consciousness
• Martha Rogers – Science of Unitary of Human Being
• Nola Pender
• Patricia Benner
• Rosemarie Parse
• Sister Callista Roy – Adaptation Model
• Virginia Henderson

Steps to follow to do your critique (analysis and evaluation):

1. Begin researching:
   • You can visit the Fitne website to watch videos about the above mentioned theorist.
   • You can use the Internet to find a journal or articles that provides an analysis and critique of a theory of nursing as a resource to start working with your own critique.
2. Choose your theorist by logging into Fitne entering the following information:
   
   • Username: medical center campus
   • Password: medical
   • Under the Nurse Theorists: Portraits of Excellence (Volume I) link select the theorist of your choice
   • On the left navigation area select a topic to view
3. Your critique paper must address the five (5) topics as shown in the Nursing Critique Rubric (MP3) .
4. Be typed according to the APA style

Major Project 3

Your paper should:

• embody all five (5) headings/topics as shown in the Nursing Critique Rubric (MP3) .
• be typed according to APA style for margins, formating and spacing standards
• be typed into a Microsoft Word document