The purpose of this article is to examine Dossey’s theory of integral nursing in relation to its major theoretical source, Wilber’s integral theory. Although several nursing scholars have written about integral theory in relation to nursing scholarship and practice, Dossey’s theory of integral nursing may be influencing how nurses take up integral theory in a significant way due to an extensive outreach in the holistic nursing community. Despite this wide circulation, the theory of integral nursing has yet to be reviewed in the nursing literature. This article (a) compares Dossey’s theory of integral nursing with Wilber’s integral theory and (b) contrasts Dossey’s integral approach with another integral approach used by other scholars of integral theory.
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