Guardian of the Discipline The Nursing Research journal, In Memoriam of the journal's former Editor from 1979-1997, stated: Florence Downs - a well-recognized nursing leader, educator, editor, and scholar helped shape nursing as an intellectual discipline and wrote extensively about the importance of links between research and practice. Florence Downs. (2005). Nursing Research (New York), … Continue reading Florence S. Downs, EdD, RN, FAAN (August 20, 1925-September 8, 2005)
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Evelyn Rose Benson Celebrating 100 Years!
This month of March is special for many reasons. March 1st was the first day of our meteorological spring, March 19th is the first day of our astrological spring, and March is the birthday month of a very special nursologist. Please join me in wishing Evelyn Rose Benson a most happy 100th birthday! For a … Continue reading Evelyn Rose Benson Celebrating 100 Years!
Teaching Nursology: When? How?
One goal of the nursology.net website is to provide resources for encouraging the use of nursology knowledge by all nursologists. I join others who maintain that one way to do this is to teach the content of nursology knowledge as a foundational course in the nursology curricula of undergraduate and graduate programs. We on the … Continue reading Teaching Nursology: When? How?
Avoiding the Theory-Practice Gap: A Roy Adaptation Model Perspective
I have been honored to have opportunities to interact with learners (aka students) enrolled in a master’s degree program at St. Mary’s College School of Nursing in Kurume, Japan as part of my appointment as a Visiting Professor at the college. During our (virtual) time together in February 2023, I shared my firm belief that … Continue reading Avoiding the Theory-Practice Gap: A Roy Adaptation Model Perspective
Nursology Conceptual Models, Theories, and Specialties
This blog is an extension of one that I posted on nursology.net in December, 2018 (Fawcett, 2018). In that blog, I asked what specialties could be considered legitimate for our discipline and proposed that nursology specialties should be based on the concepts of each nursology conceptual model (see the Models and Theories Gallery). The Alphabet … Continue reading Nursology Conceptual Models, Theories, and Specialties
Cultures, Subcultures, and Transcultural Nursing
Contributors: Carol Bloch PhD, RN, CTN-A, CNS; Carolyn Bloch, PhD, RN, CTN-A, CNS; and Jacqueline Fawcett, RN: PhD; ScD (hon); FAAN; ANEF Jacqueline Fawcett: I am very pleased to collaborate with Drs. Carol and Carolyn Bloch for this blog about culture, subcultures, and transcultural nursing. This blog is an extension of a previous blog about … Continue reading Cultures, Subcultures, and Transcultural Nursing
Hallmarks of Success in Nursology Theory Development, Research, and Practice
Notable Works During the 1980s, I was the sole author or co-author of a trilogy of papers about what I referred to as Hallmarks of Success. The first paper was Hallmarks of Success in Nursing Theory Development (Fawcett, 1983). The second paper was Hallmarks of Success in Nursing Research (Fawcett, 1984a, 1984b). The third paper … Continue reading Hallmarks of Success in Nursology Theory Development, Research, and Practice
Dr. Gaurdia Banister – Guardian of the Discipline
Guardians of the Discipline It is my honor to introduce readers to Dr. Gaurdia Banister as a Guardian of our Discipline of Nursology. I have known of Dr. Banister for several years and most recently am having the pleasure of her membership on one of the University of Massachusetts Boston PhD nursology program learner’s dissertation … Continue reading Dr. Gaurdia Banister – Guardian of the Discipline
Notable Works: Carter, M. A., & Haji Assa, A. S. (2023). The problem of comparing nurse practitioner practice with medical practice
Notable Works Co-contributors: Kunta Gautam, Ralph Klotzbaugh, Christopher Reeves Carter and Haji Assa (2023) have written an intriguing and thought-provoking paper about the “curious” historical and continuing comparison between the practice of nurse practitioners (NPs) and that of physicians (MDs). They contended that the ontology and epistemology of NPs and MDs are so different “that … Continue reading Notable Works: Carter, M. A., & Haji Assa, A. S. (2023). The problem of comparing nurse practitioner practice with medical practice
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