Myra Levine

Books

Blueprint for Use of Nursing Models: Education, Research, Practice & Administration. Patricia Hinton walker & Betty Neuman, editors. National League for Nursing. 1996.

Specific Chapter: 7) Levine's Conservation Model: Caring for Women with Chronic Illness

Contemporary Nursing Knowledge: Analysis and Evaluation of Nursing Models and Theories. Jacqueline Fawcett. 2nd edition. F.A. Davis. 2005.

Specific Chapter: 6) Levine's Conservation Model

Levine's Conservation Model: A Framework for Nursing Practice. Karen Schaefer and Jane Benson Pond. Davis. 1991.

Specific Chapters: 1) Conservation Principles: A Model for Health. 2) Analysis and Evaluation of Levine's Conservation Model. 3) Levine's Conservation Principles and Research

Nursing Theories: The Base for Professional Nursing Practice. Julia George. Appleton & Lange. 2002.

Specific Chapter: 12) Myra Estrin Levine

Nursing Theories and Models: A Study and Learning Tool. Ruby Wesley. Springhouse. 1992.

Specific Chapter: 9) Levine's Conservation Model

Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice. Marilyn Parker. F.A. Davis. 2001.

Specific Chapter: 8) Conservation Model: A Model for the Future

Nursing Theories in Practice. Marilyn Parker, editor. National League for Nursing. 1990.

Specific Chapters: Part VII. Levine's Conservation Model. 15) Conservation and Integrity. 16) Application of Levine's Conservation Model to Nursing the Homeless Community. 17) A Description of Fatigue Associated with Congestive Heart Failure: Use of Levine's Conservation Model

Nursing Theorists and Their Work. Ann Marriner Tomey and Martha Raile Alligood. Mosby. 2002.

Specific Chapter: 14) Myra Estrin Levine: The Conservation Model

Nursing Theory: Utilization and Application. Martha Raile Alligood and Ann Marriner Tomey. Mosby. 2002.

Specific Chapter: 10) Levine's Conservation Model in Nursing Practice

Theoretical Nursing: Development and Progress. Afaf Ibrahim Meleis. Lippincott. 1997.

Specific Chapter: Myra Levine, pg. 381

Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists: A Creative Begining. Kathleen Sitzman and Lisa Wright Eichelberger. Jones and Bartlett. 2004.

Specific Chapter: 11) Myra Estrin Levine's Conservation Model

Videos

Myra Levine 'The Conservative Model'. [1 video]. Athens, OH: Fuld Institute for Technology in Nursing Education, 1988. 32 minutes. (The Nurse Theorists--Portraits of Excellence series).

Synopsis: Maintenance of the person's wholeness, which occurs through adaptation to environmental challenges; promoting conservation of the patient's energy, and structural, personal, and social integrity as a goal of nursing practice and care.

Journal Articles

A theory of health promotion for preterm infants based on Levine’s conservation model of nursing. Mefford LC. Nursing Science Quarterly. 17(3): 260-266, 2004 July.

Myra E. Levine: a theoretic basis for ET nursing... including commentary by Gray M. Neswick RS. Journal of WOCN. 24(1):6-9, 1997 Jan.

The conservation principles: a retrospective. Levine ME. Nursing Science Quarterly. 9(1):38-41, 1996 Spring.

Levine's conservation model as a guide to nursing practice. Schaefer KM. Pond JB. Nursing Science Quarterly. 7(2):53-4, 1994 Summer.

The concept of perception in selected nursing theories. Bunting SM. Nursing Science Quarterly. 1(4):168-74, 1988 Nov.

Organizing data for nursing diagnoses using conservation principles. Taylor JW. Classification of nursing diagnoses: proceedings of the seventh conference held in St. Louis, MO, March 9-13, 1986

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