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Nursing 700: Theoretical Foundations of Nursing Science

A guide for incoming graduate students at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing.

The Nurse Theorists: Portraits of Excellence

The Nurse Theorists: Portraits Of Excellence is a series of videos about major female nursing theorists, their lives, and their work.  Each video is between 25-45 minutes in length, and many contain interviews with the theorists themselves.

You can visit The Health Professions Education Center, located on the Mezzanine Level of the Brookdale Campus, to view videos about the following theorists:

  • Madeline Leininger - Call # 5136
  • Myra Levine - Call # 5750
  • Dorothea Orem - Call # 5046
  • Betty Neuman - Call # 5406
  • Margaret Newman - Call # 5405
  • Florence Nightingale - Call # 5073
  • Rosemarie Rizzo Parse - Call # 5045
  • Hildegard Peplau - Call # 5137
  • Martha Rogers - Call # 5047
  • Callista Roy - Call # 5180
  • Jean Watson - Call # 5904

Selected Primary Sources

Original works by nursing theorists:

Selected Secondary Sources