This book explores the application of nursing models to practice - the practice, that is, of clinical nursing, education and management. It sets out to explain and bring alive important, mainly American, theoretical work: it does so by featuring a collection of essays from contributors who work in a wide variety of settings at different grades and who show how British nurses have applied and adapted the various frameworks for nursing contained in the different models. Models for Nursing explores the ideas behind nursing models in a critical way and bridges the gap between theory and practice.