We are very pleased to notify all Nursology.net visitors that the entire three volumes of “The Nurse Theorists: Portraits of Excellence” are now available on our website. The videos are available for viewing by those who access nursology.net, Downloading is not allowed due to our licensing agreement with the Fuld Institute for Technology in Nursing Education (FITNE, Inc.), who sold the rights to the videos to nursology.net before the company went out of business at the end of 2023. However the videos are freely available to view from Nursology.net, or from the NursologyNet YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@NursologyNet). The purchase was made possible by the generous donations of our donors.

Jacqueline Fawcett’s interviews of several nurse theorists comprise Volume 1. Martha Alligood’s interviews of several more nurse theorists comprise Volumes 2 and 3. See the full list of videos here, with links for viewing. Also see the “FITNE Theorist Gallery”

The nurse theorists featured in Volume 1 are Virginia Henderson, Dorothy Johnson, Imogene King, Madeleine Leininger, Myra Levine, Betty Neuman, Margaret Newman, Florence Nightingale, Dorothea Orem, Ida Jean Orlando, Rosemarie Parse, Hildegarde Peplau, Martha Rogers, Callista Roy, Reva Rubin, and Jean Watsohttps://wp.me/Pa13op-9qn.   

Featured in Volume 2 are nurse theorists Helen Erickson, Merle Mishel, Pamela Reed, Nola Pender, Afaf Meleis, and Patricia Benner.

Volume 3 features nurse theorists Elizabeth Ann Manhart Barrett, Cheryl Beck, Marilyn Dee Ray, Kathy Kolcaba, Savina Schoenhofer, and Marilyn McFarland discussing Madeline Leiningers, Madeleine Leininger’s theory video is also part of Volume 1. In addition, three videos comprising “The Nurse Theorists: Excellence in Action” series feature the application of the theories of Patricia Benner, Dorothea Orem, and Callista Roy.

Jacqueline Fawcett and Martha Alligood have provided an historical context by contributing their remembrances of how videos came to be made and where each one was filmed.

• Jacqueline Fawcett “On the Making of the Nurse Theorist Videos Volume 1“.
• Martha Alligood “On the Making of the Nurse Theorist Videos Volume 2″.
• Martha Alligood “On the Making of the Nurse Theorist Videos Volume 3“

We are delighted to add this important historical collection to Nursology.net! We hope that they will not only inspire appreciation for nursing’s legacy of knowledge expressed in theory, but that they will inspire new ideas and creative perspectives for the future!