ADOPTATION to ENVIRONMENT and PROTECTING INTEGRITY: LEVINE’S CONSERVATION MODEL

Nursing theories provide common language in nursing field and organize proffessional scientific knowledge by defining concepts related to nursing and explaining relation between theese concepts. Theories introduce different wiewpoint to nursing practises and researches and they allow to plan, evaluate with methodological approaches. Using nursing theories in clinics and researches strengthens scientific basis of nursing profession by systematizing body of knowledge that obtained from professional experience and nursing researches. Levine’s conservation model is one of the nursing models which are widely used worldwide. ？n this model it is specified that for sustainability of health and wholeness, balance between persons internal and external environmet must be conserved. Levine explained nursing functions that provide sustaining balance and conserving wholenes by addressing in a conceptual framework. ？n this review, information regarding the conceptual structure of Levine's conservation model will be presented