Dr. Joyce Fitzpatrick

- Born in 1944
- BSN - Georgetown University
- MS in psychiatric-mental health nursing - Ohio State University
- PhD in nursing - New York University and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University.
- Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing - 1981
- Presently, Elizabeth Brooks Ford Professor of Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.
Rhythm Model includes four content concepts and they are:
- person
- health
- wellness-illness and
- metaparadigm.