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CHAPTER

9

Myra Levine

PART ONE: Myra Levine’s

Conservation Model

and Its Applications

Introducing the Theorist

Introducing the Theory

Applications

Summary

References

Introducing the Theorist

Myra Levine has been called a Renaissance
woman—highly principled, remarkable, and com-
mitted to what happens to the patients’ quality of
life. She was a daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend,
educator, administrator, student of humanities,
scholar, enabler, and confidante. She was amazingly
intelligent, opinionated, quick to respond, loving,

caring, trustworthy, and global in her vision of

nursing. She lives on in the author’s heart, as I hope

she will in yours as you learn about her and the

model she unknowingly created to develop nursing

knowledge.

Levine was born in Chicago and was raised with

a sister and a brother with whom she shared a close,

loving relationship (Levine, 1988b). She was also

very fond of her father, who was a hardware

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