The force of nursing theory-guided practice

This column is the first of two that features summaries of the papers presented by nursing theory-guided practice experts at the American Academy of Nursing meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, in November 2005. Their presentations inform us about the diversity of nursing processes that facilitate human health and define the discipline. In this column, the focus is on the Roy adaptation model, King's transaction process and concept of goal attainment, and the concept of trust as a pattern manifestation of Rogers' human-environment process.