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CINAHL includes many nursing theorist resources. You can pinpoint to specific resources by using the CINAHL Subject Headings.
| Nursing Theorist Name | CINAHL Heading Listing | Other Name(s) |
| Patricia Benner | Benner's Professional Advancement Model | From Novice to Expert |
| Juliet Corbin & Anselm Strauss | Corbin and Strauss Chronic Illness Trajectory Framework | Trajectory Framework |
| Cheryl Cox | Cox Interaction Model of Client Health Behavior | IMCHB |
| Joyce Fitzpatrick | Fitzpatrick Life Perspective | Life Perspective Rhythm Model |
| Marjory Gordon | Gordon's Functional Health Patterns | |
| Virginia Henderson | Henderson Nursing Model | Need Theory |
| Dorothy Johnson | Johnson Behavioral System Model | System model |
| Imogene King | King Open Systems Model | Goal Attainment theory |
| Madeleine Leininger | Leininger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality | Transcultural nursing |
| Howard Leventhal | Leventhal and Johnson's Theory of Self-Regulation | Common-Sense Model (CSM) |
| Myra Levine | Levine Conservation Model | |
| Carolyn Smith Marker | Marker Nursing Model | Marker Professional Practice Model |
| Merle Mishel | Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Theory | Reconceptualized Uncertainty in Illness Theory (RUIT) |
| Betty Neuman | Neuman Systems Model | System model |
| Margaret Newman | Newman Health Model | Health As Expanding Consciousness |
| Florence Nightingale | Nightingale's Nursing Theory | Environment theory |
| Dorothea Orem | Orem Self-Care Model | Self-care theory |
| Ida Jean Orlando | Orlando's Theory of the Deliberative Nursing Process | Nursing Process theory |
| Rosemarie Rizzo Parse | Parse's Theory of Human Becoming | Human Becoming Theory |
| Josephine Paterson & Loretta Zderad | Paterson and Zderad's Theory of Humanistic Nursing | Humanistic nursing theory |
| Nola Pender | Pender Health Promotion Model | Health Promotion Model (HPM) |
| Hildegard Peplau | Peplau Interpersonal Relations Model | Interpersonal theory |
| Martha Rogers | Rogers Science of Unitary Human Beings | Unitary Human beings |
| Nancy Roper | Roper's Activities of Living Model | Model of Living, Roper–Logan–Tierney model of nursing |
| Sister Calista Roy | Roy Adaptation Model | Adaptation theory |
| Reva Rubin | Rubin's Theory of Maternal Identity | Puerperal change |
| Barbara Resnick | Theory of Self-efficacy | social cognitive theory, Self efficacy theory |
| Sonya Hardin, AACN think tank | Synergy Model | AACN Synergy Model |
| Jean Watson | Watson's Theory of Caring | Philosophy and Caring Model |
| Ernestine Wiedenbach | Wiedenbach's Theory | The Helping Art of Clinical Nursing |