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. 2025 Jul;38(3):233-241.
doi: 10.1177/08943184251335254. Epub 2025 Jun 20.

Helen L. Erickson: Country Girl to Internationally Known Nurse

Mary R Morrow  1 , Helen L Erickson  2
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Helen L. Erickson: Country Girl to Internationally Known Nurse

Mary R Morrow et al. Nurs Sci Q. 2025 Jul.

Abstract

Dr. Helen Erickson is known internationally as a holistic nurse leader, theorist, educator, researcher, and colleague who pushes the leading edge of nursing, insisting that nursing attend to clients' perspectives first. She is the primary author of the nursing theory modeling and role-modeling. Erickson articulates differences between wholism and holism, arguing that the latter is necessary to facilitate wholeness, quality of life, and well-being. In this dialogue, she reveals what influenced her journey from country girl to internationally known nurse.

Keywords: holistic nursing; modeling and role-modeling; nursing theory.

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Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the authorship and/or publication of this review.

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