People

Shown below are the active members of the Nursology.net management team, those whose main focus is to provide regular blog posts, and our “emerita” who are no longer active, but who made significant contributions during their service on the team.

The main responsibility of the management team is development of content for the site, and providing assurance that we proceed in concert with our stated mission, goals, values and ethics. We meet on video conference once a month. Management team members contribute to the web site by (1) writing blogs, (2) submitting exemplars of applications of nursing theories or models, (3) developing content about one or more conceptual models and theories of nursology, (4) assisting with keeping the site current and accurate, and (5) attending as many as possible of our monthly Zoom meetings (usually held at 4 PM Eastern Time on the 3rd Thursday of each month).

We welcome all contributions to the site, using the forms provided on the main pages of each section. In addition, we welcome:

If you would like to become involved in our work, please contact us!

Management Team

Peggy L Chinn, RN, PhD, DSc(Hon), FAAN

Principal web manager of Nursology.net
- ORCID – 0000-0002-9757-2376
- @peggychinn
Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut.
Teaches courses related to nursing knowledge development, leads workshops on writing and publishing.
Editor, Advances in Nursing Science
Author, with Maeona Kramer, of Knowledge Development in Nursing, 11th edition in production.
Author, with Adeline Falk-Rafael, of “Peace and power: a theory of emancipatory group process.” Journal of Nursing Scholarship 47(1), 62–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12101. (also see Peace and Power website)
Member, leadership team, NurseManifest activist project and co-organizer of the “Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing” project
Member of the planning/management team and co-web manager for the Nursing Theory Conference project
Positionality – feminist, lesbian mom, grandmother, anti-racist activist. I grew up in Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii with undergraduate nursing degree in nursing from the University of Hawaii.

Lucinda Canty, PhD, CNM, FACNM

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Host and co-founder, “Overdue Reckoning on Racism in Nursing“
Founder and Director, Lucinda’s House, addressing racial disparities in maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity.
Provides direct care for women and families at Planned Parenthood in Hartford, CT
National and international leader in virtual forums to forge new paths for anti-racism in nursing policy, practice, education and research
Research focuses on the history of Black Midwives, maternal mortality and morbidity
Widely sought as a presenter and leader in addressing racism in nursing, including testimony before the Connecticut state legislator
Advocate for the recognition and inclusion of Black doulas serving all communities in Connecticut

W. Richard Cowling, III, RN, PhD, AHN-BC, ANEF, FAAN

Editor of the Journal of Holistic Nursing
Executive nursing academic consultant
Associate Professor, East Carolina University
Vice President of Academic Affairs for Chamberlain College of Nursing where he helped shepherd the implementation of the Chamberlain Care Student Success Model (2011-2017)
Scholarly publications related to original conceptual and theoretical work of unitary appreciative nursing:
- Unitary knowing in nursing practice, NSQ, 1993
- Healing as appreciating wholeness, ANS, 2000
- Pattern, participation, praxis, and power in unitary appreciative inquiry, ANS. 2004
- Despair: A unitary appreciative inquiry, ANS, 2004
- Despairing women and healing outcomes, ANS, 2005
- A unitary healing praxis model for women in despair, NSQ, 2006
- A unitary participatory vision of nursing knowledge, ANS, 2007
- An essay on women, despair, and healing: A personal narrative, ANS, 2008
- Unitary appreciative inquiry: Evolution and refinement, ANS, 2010 (with E. Repede)
- Wholeness and life patterning: Unitary foundations for a healing praxis, ANS, 2011 (with K. Swartout)
Worked with nurses to promote innovative approaches to holistic and unitary appreciative nursing practice and scholarship throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany
Co-creator of Nursemanifest.net with Drs. Peggy Chinn and Sue Hagedorn
Certified as Advanced Holistic Nurse
2008 Holistic Nurse of the Year -American Holistic Nurses Association
Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing
Academy of Nursing Education Fellow, National League for Nursing

Jane K. Dickinson, RN, PhD, CDE

Program Director/Lecturer for the Diabetes Education and Management (DEDM) Masters Program at Teachers College Columbia University
Research focuses on the impact of language on health in general, and diabetes specifically.
Contributor for NurseManifest.com and Nursology.net

Jessica Dillard-Wright, PhD, MA, CNM, RN

Current research: an intellectual history of nursing and feminism
Contributor for RadicalNurses.com
Co-founder, with Jane Hopkins Walsh and Brandon Blaine Brown, of the “Compost Collective” developing posthumxnism perspectives on nursing and healthcare

Rosemary William Eustace, PhD, RN, PHNA-BC

Associate professor & 2017 Carnegie Fellow at the Wright State University College of Nursing and Health
Power of Nursing (PON) Course Director
Teaching specializations include family and community/public health nursing.
Authored conceptual work in family and community/public health nursing:
- A concept analysis of the meaning of family nursing intervention paper with Bobbe Gray and Donna Curry in the Research and Theory for Nursing Practice: An International Journal, 2018.
- A concept analysis of HIV disclosure paper with Perla Ilagan in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2010.
- A knowledge synthesis discussion paper on HIV/AIDS Family Interventions in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2013.
- A teaching strategy to facilitate nursing student’s translation of global health learning from classroom to the community utilizing the Community as a Partner Model paper published in the Journal of Community Health Nursing, 2018
Chairs a student DNP project that is utilizing the nursingConceptual model for Partnership and Sustainability in Global Health by Leffer & Mitchell’s (2011) and Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality by Leininger (2008).
Led the first collaborative Wholeheartedly Resources in Global Health Teamwork or ‘WRIGHT’ Kaseye Community Hospital Nurse Assistant Training Curriculum in Malawi with Harriet Knowles, Cindra Holland and Sherri Gunasekera, nurse educators in the Wright state University College of Nursing and Health, along with Michael Gilles and Benjamin Fornshell, two nurses from Premier Health, The project was guided by concepts from the Conceptual model for Partnership and Sustainability in Global Health by Leffer & Mitchell’s (2011), Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality by Leininger (2008), Watson’s Caring Theory by the Watson Caring Science Institute (2010) and Social Learning Theory by Bandura (Bandura, 1986, 1991).

Adeline Falk-Rafael, PhD, RN, FAAN

Senior Scholar, York University, Toronto, ON
Former Director of School of Nursing, York University
Taught in undergraduate and/or graduate programs at D’Youville College (Buffalo, NY), University of Western Ontario, and York University – courses included community health nursing, health promotion, global health, nursing theories, leadership, health policy.
Former President, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario
Researched public health nursing practice, primarily in Ontario, Canada which resulted in numerous publications, including articulation of Critical Caring Theory.
Member, leadership team, NurseManifest activist project
Member, Nursology Management Team.

Jacqueline Fawcett, RN: PhD; ScD (hon); FAAN; ANEF

Facilitator, Nursology.net management team
- ORCID: 0000-0002-1091-8873
Professor, Department of Nursing, University of Massachusetts Boston
Teaches undergraduate nursing research courses emphasizing conceptual-theoretical-empirical structures
Teaches a PhD program nursing course addressing contemporary disciplinary knowledge.
Member of the planning/management team for the Nursing Theory Conference project
Provides consultation about use of nursing conceptual models
Author, with Susan DeSanto-Madeya, of the 3^rd edition of Contemporary Nursing Knowledge
Author or co-author of numerous Essays in Nursing Science, published in Nursing Science Quarterly since 2012.
Author, with Gail Russell, of the Conceptual Model of Nursing and Health Policy
Author, with Carol Hall Ellenbecker, of the Conceptual Model of Nursing and Population Health
Author of the Conceptual Model for Equity and Quality: Population Health and Health Policy.

Jane Flanagan, PhD, RN, ANP- BC, AHN-BC, FNAP, FNI, FAAN

Associate Professor and Program Director of Adult Gerontology Program at Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA
Member of the planning/management team for the Nursing Theory Conference project
Teaches graduate nursing courses in adult gerontology heatlh with an emphasis on incorporating nursing theory into advanced practice.
Teaches on the PhD level, advanced qualitative research.
Editor of International Journal of Nursing Knowledge.
President of the Society of Rogerian Scholars,
Board member of the International Association for Human Caring.
Co-chair American Academy of Nursing, Nursing Theory Guided Practice Expert Panel, 2017-2018.
Research and practice focused on applying the Martha Rogers theory of the science of unitary human beings and the Margaret Newman theory of health as expanding consciousness.
Clinical practice as a NP at Bournewood Health.
Nurse Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Munn Center for Nursing Research.

Karen J. Foli, MSN, PhD, RN, FAAN

Associate Professor and Director, PhD Program, Purdue University School of Nursing
Author of Middle Range Theory of Parental Postadoption Depression
Author of Middle Range Theory of Nurses’ Psychological Trauma

Marsha Fowler, Ph.D., MDiv, MS, RN, FAAN, FRSA

Holds faculty appointments in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom teaching nursing ethics
Fulbright Research Scholar, University of Surrey, UK, 2018-2019
Consultant, Ministry of Health, Republic of Russia, 1992 to 2003
Member of the writing subgroup, Steering Committee for the revision of the ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses, International Council of Nurses, 2019-2021
Elected Co-chair Expert Panel of Bioethics, 2022, American Academy of Nursing
International Council of Nurses, Steering Committee for the revision of the ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses, 2019
Has played a major role in the development of American Nurses’ Association Code of Ethics
- Committee on Ethics, 1985-87
- Chairwoman 1987-89 Committee on Ethics
- Project team, evaluation for revision of the Code for Nurses, 1995
- Member, task force for the Revision of the Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements, 1996/2001
- Member, Task Force for the Review of the Code of Ethics, 2012-2013;
- Member, Steering Committee for the revision of the Code of Ethics for Nursing with Interpretive Statements, and committee Historian and Code Scholar, 2013-2014
Author of two significant “Guides” related to understanding and interpreting the following ANA policy statements:
- Fowler, Marsha D.M. Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses: Development, Interpretation and Application. 2nd ed. American Nurses Association, 2015. ISBN: 978-1558106031
- Fowler, Marsha D.M. Guide to Nursing’s Social Policy Statement: Understanding the Essence of the Profession from Social Contract to Social Covenant. American Nurses Association, 2015. ISBN 978-1558106154

Kunta Gautam, NP, MPH

Ph.D. Candidate, Texas Woman’s University, Houston
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Texas Children’s Hospital
- Clinical Preceptor for Nurse Practitioner students
Editorial Board Member, International Journal for Human Caring
National Diversity Council Certified Diversity Professional
Research interests: Issues related to health equity, caregiver burden, health and well-being of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder. Building research trajectory on children and families with ASD.
Member, American Association of Nurse Practitioners
Member, Evidence-Based Outcome Committee, Texas Children’s Hospital
Member, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, Beta Beta Houston Chapter
Contributor to Sigma Nursing Centered
Contributor to Nursology

Deborah Lindell DNP, MSN, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN

Associate Professor, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University.
Member of the planning/management team for the Nursing Theory Conference project
Directed CWRU’s Graduate Entry Nursing Program (evolved from the original Doctor of Nursing (N.D.) Program) (2005-2017)
Teaches nursing theory for Masters and DNP students & advises DNP projects (over 10 years).
Visiting Faculty, Wuhan (China) University (since 2007). Teaches Masters’ nursing theory and advanced community health nursing and advises Masters’ student research.
Coordinated abstract review, Nursing Theory: A 50 Year Perspective, Past and Future (Cleveland, March, 2019).
Member, AAN Nursing Theory Guided Practice Expert Panel.
Former Chair, NLN Nurse Educator Certification Commission.

Chloé Littzen-Brown, PhD, RN, AE-C

Co-web manager of Nursology.net
Assistant Professor, The University of Portland, School of Nursing
Research Analyst, The University of Arizona, College of Nursing
Founding member of the Nursology Theory Collective
Current research: Experiences of healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic
Research interests: Nurse well-being, nursing theory and philosophy, integrative health, social justice, and mixed methods
Teaches: Doctoral level statistics and undergraduate healthy work environment/healthcare policy/healthcare law

Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, PhD, RN

Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, College of Nursing
Author, Cultural Safety, Heathcare and Vulnerable populations: A Critical Theoretical Perspective (2018)
Current research: the use of feminist theories in advancing gender equity in low-income communities; addressing barriers for BIPOC women who are survivors of violence
Teaches Advanced qualitative health research at PhD level
Member, Nursology management Team
Advances in Nursing Science Advisory Board

Leslie H. Nicoll, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN

Nursology.net management team; co-web manager.
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2149-7856
- @leslienicoll
President and Owner, Maine Desk LLC, Portland, ME (since 2001)
Formerly, Senior Research Associate, Muskie School for Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland ME (1991-2001)
Editor-in-Chief, CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing and Nurse Author & Editor
Editor, Perspectives on Nursing Theory, editions 1 through 4, 1986-2002
Author, Manuscript Success: A Guide to Successfully Publishing in the Nursing Literature
Author, Nurse’s Guide to the Internet (3 editions)
Author, with Peggy Chinn, Writing in the Digital Age: Savvy Publishing for Healthcare Professionals
Author, Margaret Freda (editions 1 and 2) and Peggy Chinn (edition 3), The Editor’s Handbook
Active research program related to scholarly publication in nursing; predatory publications and their impact on the scholarly literature;
Chief Executive Volunteer for the International Academy of Nursing Editors
Manager of the planning/management team for the Nursing Theory Conference project

Patrick A. Palmieri, DHSc, DPhil(Hon), PGDip(OXON), EdD, MBA, RN, FAAN

Vice Chancellor for Research and Jean Watson Distinguished Professor, Universidad Norbert Wiener.
Co-Director, Peruvian Center for Qualitative Research.
Director, EBHC South America: A Joanna Briggs Affiliated Group.
Adjunct Professor, PhD Program in Nursing, Walden University.
Adjunct Professor, Center for Global Nursing, Texas Woman’s University.
Faculty Associate, Watson Caring Science Institute
Dr. Palmieri was the first nurse researcher qualified at the highest level in Peru (RENACYT #P0022630) by the National Committee for Science, Technology, and Innovation (CONCYTEC).
Author of works focusing on international nursing theory development including co-editor, with Susan M. Lee and Jean Watson of Global Advances in Human Caring Literacy.

Marlaine Smith, RN, PhD, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC, FAAN

Dean, Professor, Helen K. Persson Eminent Scholar, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Member, leadership team, NurseManifest activist project.
Editor of Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice (5th edition) 3rd and 4th editions with Marilyn Parker.
Editor of Caring in Nursing Classics with Marian Turkel and Zane Wolf.
Editor of Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing: Social Justice as Praxis with Paula Kagan and Peggy Chinn.
Associate Editor of A Handbook of Caring Science.
Author of a “Middle Range Theory of Unitary Caring” In Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice, 3rd & 4th editions.
Research and scholarship focus on knowledge development, unitary science, caring science and their intersections, holistic nursing practice, healing processes and manifestations especially healing through touch.
Board member and Past-President, Society of Rogerian Scholars.
American Academy of Nursing, Nursing Theory-Guided Practice Expert Panel, chair in waiting.

Marian Turkel, RN, PhD, NEA-BC, FAAN

Watson Caring Science Institute Postdoctoral Scholar
Member, Nursology.net management team
Affiliate Associate Professor, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University
Teaches undergraduate nursing course Creating Healing Environments with focus on nursing theories guiding holistic modalities and holistic nursing practice
Teaches graduate nursing course Advanced Nursing Practice Grounded in Caring
Serves as member of PhD dissertations
Co-Investigator with Dr. Marilyn Ray (principal Investigator) on 3 federal nursing research grants funded by Tri-Service Nursing Research related to caring and economics in healthcare systems. Funding for 3 grants close to one million dollars.
Chair American Academy of Nursing, Nursing Theory Guided Practice Expert Panel 2016-2017
Past President International Association for Human Caring
Author with Marlaine Smith & Zane Wolf, Caring in Nursing Classics
Author with Marilyn Ray Nursing, Caring and Complexity Science (AJN Book of the Year 2012)
Associate Editor A Handbook for Caring Science: Expanding the Paradigm

Danny Willis, DNS, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN

Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Experienced in nursing education, including PhD courses in nursing knowledge development and qualitative research methods, and graduate courses in psychotherapy
Board of Directors experience: Society of Rogerian Scholars
Member: Roy Adaptation Society, International Association for Human Caring
Research Council Steering Committee –Chair: American Psychiatric Nurses Association
Associate Editor, Research and Theory for Nursing Practice
Co-chair American Academy of Nursing, Nursing Theory Guided Practice Expert Panel, 2017-2018.
Research and philosophical writings on qualitative methods, healing, and a central unifying focus of the discipline
Nurse Scientist appointment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Munn Center for Nursing Research.

Jennifer Woo, PhD, RN, CNM/WHNP, FACNM

Assistant Professor, Texas Woman’s University
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences at UT Southwestern
Certified Nurse Midwife/Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner at Parkland Memorial Hospital
Teach at both PhD level (Statistics, quantitative research) and Master’s level in the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner core courses.
Researched interests: health disparities and equity as it relates to maternal child health, vitamin D deficiency and impact on maternal health, diversifying midwifery/women’s health workforce.
Vice-chair of Midwives of Color Committee through the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM)
Member, TWU’s Chancellor’s Diversity and Inclusion Council
Member, Nursology Management Team.

Emerita Team Members

Margaret Pharris, PhD, RN, MPH, AHN-BC, FAAN

Professor and Nursing Outcomes Coordinator, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA (Retired)
Founding management team member; retired April 2020

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