Contributor: Seth Stephens Patient safety has always been an important part of nursing. Over the course of my twenty years as a nurse I have had the opportunity to see nurses escalate broken care processes and issues that have saved patient lives, and I’ve seen how systems errors can result in patient deaths. Several years … Continue reading Patient Safety Research: Magnifying Silent Voices
Gender Inclusivity Lessons as a Novice Researcher: Reflecting on Emancipatory Knowing
Contributor: Kelsie Barta, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, IBCLC As a people pleaser at heart, I would not have believed you if you told me five years ago that a social media post sharing my dissertation recruitment information would be met with “laugh” and “angry” reactions, and that I’d be fine with it! In recent years, there … Continue reading Gender Inclusivity Lessons as a Novice Researcher: Reflecting on Emancipatory Knowing
The Person with an Initial Clinical Diagnosis of “HIV”: Uncertainty as a Human Response
Contributor: Bárbara Marisa Franco Nunes da Silva Cardoso I have been a nurse for over a decade, always in the infectious diseases department, working with people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. As I see in my clinical practice and as several authors substantiate, this infection has an impact on the person in all its … Continue reading The Person with an Initial Clinical Diagnosis of “HIV”: Uncertainty as a Human Response
Power, racism, and the imperative of advocacy in the nursing profession: A call to action from the Tennessee Three
Contributor: Jean Croce Hemphill, PhD, FNP- BC The power of position, of conferred authority, and the power of societal and cultural privilege, converged this month in the state of Tennessee resulting in the silencing of diverse voices demanding action against gun violence. Given the moniker, the Tennessee Three, Justin Pearson, Gloria Johnson, and Justin Jones, … Continue reading Power, racism, and the imperative of advocacy in the nursing profession: A call to action from the Tennessee Three
Evelyn Rose Benson: Public Health Nursologist Extraordinaire
Guardian of the Discipline Evelyn Rose Benson I met Evelyn Rose Benson at an annual meeting of the Nursing History Archives of the Boston University Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center circa 2001. We quickly became good friends, meeting once each academic semester for dinner or Sunday brunch at a restaurant in Boston or Brookline or … Continue reading Evelyn Rose Benson: Public Health Nursologist Extraordinaire
Poetry as Knowing in Nursing
Contributor: Mary Ann Lavin, ScD, RN, ANP-BC (Retired), FNI, FAAN I selected the poem below by Juliette Ligon from the Internet (retrieved December 11, 2022 from the Poetry Soup website) .It was written in 2019. I selected it because it so much mirrored by own experiences of unconsciousness. The first time was due to an … Continue reading Poetry as Knowing in Nursing
Help Us! We are Dying!
Contributor: Jenelle Marius HELP US! WE ARE DYING! As a nurse and a woman of color, I can see a lot of issues in the healthcare system from both perspectives and I employ other healthcare workers to try to see it as well. I am passionate about a lot of health and social justice issues … Continue reading Help Us! We are Dying!
Report from the Newman Theory/Research/Practice Society in Japan
Contributors: Mari Mitsugi, Satoko Imaizumi, Mitoko Senzaki, Emiko Endo We are pleased to report on the work of the Newman Theory/Research/Practice Society in Japan. We have already posted three times on this NET (Jan. 10, 2019, by Endo & Mitsugi; Dec. 17, 2019, by Pharris; and Jan. 26, 2021, by Imaizumi, etc.). Here, the new … Continue reading Report from the Newman Theory/Research/Practice Society in Japan
The Best Nursing Job: Fulfilling My “Why” in Nursing Through the Nurse-Family Partnership Program
Contributor - Jessica K. Cochran, BSN RN At the age of 29, three weeks deep into the haze of being freshly postpartum, I found myself on the couch seemingly continuously nursing my new baby and glued to the coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I was particularly riveted by the story of a young … Continue reading The Best Nursing Job: Fulfilling My “Why” in Nursing Through the Nurse-Family Partnership Program
Human-animal bond as a facilitator of comfort for the older person: Contributions from Katherine Kolcaba’s Theory
Contributor - Ana Pinto de Azevedo Nursing science has been defined in several ways based on theorists who consider the concept of relationship as fundamental to the perspective of human health. The human-animal bond is essential in health; life satisfaction is individualized and requires a holistic view. Nursing values relationships that are caring, natural, and … Continue reading Human-animal bond as a facilitator of comfort for the older person: Contributions from Katherine Kolcaba’s Theory