Today we are adopting a new nursology.net tag line “Honoring our Heritage, Building our Future” in concert with the annual focus in May of each year on nursing and nurses, anchored around Florence Nightingale’s birth date - May 12, 1820. Almost 100 years later, nursology theorist Martha E. Rogers was born on the same date … Continue reading Honoring our Heritage, Building our Future
Month: April 2019
Nursology’s Philosophical and Practical Knowledge: Unified and Interdependent
Guest Contributor: Martha Raile Alligood, RN, PhD, ANEF A few months ago, Martha Alligood sent me (Jacquelyn Fawcett) this intriguing article: Rovelli, C. (2018). Physics needs philosophy, philosophy needs physics, Foundations of Physics, 48, 481-491. We decided to write a paper, which has evolved into this blog, about the relationship between philosophy and science in … Continue reading Nursology’s Philosophical and Practical Knowledge: Unified and Interdependent
What If? Random Thoughts of Sleepers Awake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIOH2sCW13U With apologies to J. S. Bach, composer of Cantata no. 140, Sleepers Awake these are my random thoughts of "What If?" about our discipline while I was a sleeper awake one very early morning. What if Florence Nightingale (circa 1859) founded modern nursology (rather than nursing), titled her book, Nursology: What it is and … Continue reading What If? Random Thoughts of Sleepers Awake
Ann C. Wolbert Burgess, RN, APRN, FAAN
Guardian of the Discipline Boston College web page Dr. Burgess is perhaps best known for her scholarly work about and guiding practice of forensic nursing. She and Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, a sociologist at Boston College, described rape trauma syndrome and founded the first rape crisis counseling program at Boston City Hospital (now Boston University Medical … Continue reading Ann C. Wolbert Burgess, RN, APRN, FAAN
The problem with the 5-10 year “rule” for citations
Recently I have encountered more and more students who tell me that their advisors are indicating that all of their citations be within the past 10 years - preferably the past 5. This is one of many damaging myths about scholarship and writing that I encounter (the other most common is to never use personal … Continue reading The problem with the 5-10 year “rule” for citations