Alison Tierney

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Alison Tierney

Alison Joan Tierney (born before 1976) is a British nursing theorist , professor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing . In 1976, together with nursing scientists Nancy Roper and Winifred Logan, she developed the nursing model for life activities , which served as the basis for the nursing model for activities in daily life according to Juchli and was further developed by Monika Krohwinkel .

life and work

Tierney was one of the first British nurses to earn a PhD in 1976 and embark on a research-based academic career. Tierney received a personal chair in nursing research at the University of Edinburgh and was director of the nursing research department there. She worked in Edinburgh with the nursing scientist Annie Altschul , who was born in 1919 and who turned to caring for traumatized soldiers during World War II and then worked intensively on psychiatric care.

Tierney moved to the University of Adelaide in Australia as Professor and Head of the Faculty of Clinical Nursing Research and Director of the South Australian Center of the Joanna Briggs Institute at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Tiersey represented the British Royal College of Nursing in the Workgroup of European Nurse Researchers = WENR from 1990 to 1997. Since 2003 she has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. She is still associated with the University of Adelaide under an associate professorship.

In 2002 she received the CBE for her achievements in the field of nursing research and education .

The nursing school of Heidelberg University implemented nursing theories from the USA and the UK as early as 1953, including the nursing theory of Roper, Logan, and Tierney.

Publications (selection)

  • with Nancy Roper, Winifred W. Logan: Elements of Nursing . Churchill Livingstone, 1980, ISBN 0-443-02198-8 (English).
  • with Nancy Roper, Winifred W. Logan: Learning to Use the Process of Nursing . Churchill Livingstone, 1981, ISBN 0-443-02234-8 (English).
  • Nurses and the Mentally Handicapped . Scutari Press, 1983, ISBN 0-471-26040-1 (English).
  • Clinical Nursing Practice . Churchill Livingstone, 1986, ISBN 0-443-02498-7 (English).
  • with Nancy Roper, Winifred W. Logan: The Roper-Logan-Tierney Model of Nursing based on Activities of Living . Elsevier Health Sciences, 2000, ISBN 0-443-06373-7 (English, (current edition / German. The Roper-Logan-Tierney model. Based on life activities )).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nancy Roper, Winifred W. Logan, Alison J. Tierney: The Roper-Logan-Tierney Model of Nursing based on Activities of Living . Elsevier Health Sciences, 2000, ISBN 0-443-06373-7 , pp. VI (English).
  2. New nursing head has distinguished career. University of Adelaide, January 15, 2003, accessed January 3, 2010 (press release).
  3. ^ The Landscape of Nursing and Midwifery Research in Scotland: Reflections and Analysis Post-RAE. In: College of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing. University of Dundee June 4, 2009, archived from the original November 17, 2009 ; Retrieved January 3, 2010 (see Dr. Alison Tierney).
  4. Christine R. Auer: History of the nursing professions as a subject. The curricular development in nursing education and training , dissertation at the Institute for the History of Medicine (today: History and Ethics of Medicine), supervisor Wolfgang U. Eckart , self-published Heidelberg 2008, on Nancy Roper, Winifred Logan, Alison Tierney S. 97-107, Abstract Diss. Christine R. Auer