Article -Nursing models and contemporary nursing 1: their development, uses and limitations.

This two-part series explores the value of nursing models and considers whether the fundamental concepts, beliefs and values about nursing in these models are relevant to current policy debates about the future of nursing. This first article provides: an overview of nursing models; how and why they were developed; and some key criticisms. The second article will examine the models in the context of contemporary nursing practice, with particular reference to recent policy initiatives designed to modernise nursing and to raise standards of care.