The Roy Academia Nursology Research Center (RANRC, see http://www.ranrc.com/) recently published the first issue of the Nursology Letter (see http://www.ranrc.com/nursology-letter/). This is the first known publication from a research center to use the word, nursology, in its title! The RANRC is a unit of the School of Nursing at St. Mary’s College in Kurume, Japan –see http://www.st-mary.ac.jp/
The Nursology Letter is another first for our discipline. Specifically, the Nursology Letter is another answer to our Who Will be the First? blog on May 21, 2019. The first “answer” to the question was publicized on our June 11, 2019 blog post announcing the establishment of the Roy Academic Nursology Research Center. The founding of the Nursology Letter is a wonderful and very significant means of communication from the St. Mary’s College RANRC. Indeed, the Nursology Letter is the perfect way to share the very important research done by the faculty and students at St. Mary’s College.
The Nursology Letter, Volume 1, 2019, includes a statement of the concept guiding the RANRC; an introduction to the inaugural issue of the Nursology Letter by Tsuyako Hidaka, RANRC Director, who also noted that the Roy Adaptation Model has been used to guide education and practice at St. Mary’s College for 30 years. The first issue of the Nursology Letter also includes greetings and message of congratulations from Nobu Ide, Chancellor of St. Mary’s Education Foundation; Callista Roy, for whom the RANRC is named; Jacqueline Fawcett, a visiting professor at St. Mary’s College School of Nursing; Debra Hanna, President of the Roy Adaptation Association-International; and Leah Fitzgerald, Dean of Mount St. Mary’s University School of Nursing in Los Angeles, CA.
In addition, the Nursology Letter includes messages about the research interests of the RANRC members, including Eric Fortin, Masako Momoi, Mayumi Sakita, Akemi Tsuruta, Michiru Asano, Satsuki Obama, Sachiko Ishimoto, Akina Ide, Chidori Hashiguchi, Ikuko Miyabayashi, and Miyuki Ichinose.
Congratulations to everyone who has made this notable publication possible! We of the nursology.net leadership team, are delighted to also let the entire nursology.net universe know about this remarkable achievement!