Florence Nightingaless Defined Nursing: The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery.

Dorothea Orems Defined Nursing: The act of assisting others in the provision and management of self-care to maintain/improve human functioning at home level of effectiveness. Virginia Henderson Defined Nursing: Assisting the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that an individual would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. Madeleine Leiningers Nursing is a learned humanistic and scientific profession and discipline which is focused on human care phenomena and activities in order to assist, support, facilitate, or enable individuals or groups to maintain or regain their well being (or health) in culturally meaningful and beneficial ways, or to help people face handicaps or death. Martha Rogers Nursing is an art and science that is humanistic and humanitarian. It is directed toward the unitary human and is concerned with the nature and direction of human development. The goal of nurses is to participate in the process of change.. Hildegard Peplaus Defined Nursing: An interpersonal process of therapeutic interactions between an Individual who is sick or in need of health services and a nurse especially educated to recognize, respond to the need for help. Lydia Halls Nursing is participation in care, core and cure aspects of patient care, where CARE is the sole function of nurses, whereas the CORE and CURE are shared with other members of the health team. Dorothy Johnsons Each individual has patterned, purposeful, repetitive ways of acting that comprises a behavioral system specific to that individual. Faye Glenn Abdellahs Nursing is a comprehensive service that is based on the art and science and aims to help people, sick or well, cope with their health needs. Imogene Kings Nursing is a process of action, reaction, and interaction whereby nurse and client share information about their perception in the nursing situation

Jean Watsons Nursing is concerned with promotion health, preventing illness, caring for the sick, and restoring health. Nursing is a human science of persons and human health-illness experiences that are mediated by professional, personal, scientific, esthetic and ethical human care transactions

Rosemarie Rizzo Parses Nursing is a scientific discipline, the practice of which is a performing art