In March 2020, I posted a blog about the meaning of words used to describe the extent to wish a person’s (patient or client) behavior does not comply with, adhere to, or is concordant with what has been prescribed by nursologists or physicians. In December 2020, I posted a blog about the meaning of words … Continue reading Practice and Research Speak: The Words We Use to Describe Ourselves and Others
Author: jacquelinefawcett
Is Medicine a Trade or a Discipline or Profession?
Nursology is regarded as a discipline and a profession, which means that nursology constitutes distinctive knowledge encompassing nursological philosophies, conceptual models, grand theories, middle-range theories, and situation-specific theories (see all content on https://nursology.net and also https://nursology.net/2018/09/24/our-name-why-nursology-why-net/.Medici)ne, in contrast, is a trade. This assertion is based on my search of literature for several years and pondering … Continue reading Is Medicine a Trade or a Discipline or Profession?
Foundations of Nursology Syllabus: Another New Resource on Nursology.net
Coauthor: Rosemary William Eustace, PhD, RN, PHNA-BC We, along with all members of the nursology.net management team, are very pleased to offer another resource for nursology – the Foundations of Nursology syllabus. The syllabus is offered in conjunction with our teaching strategies resources (Fawcett, 2019) as well as other nursology website resources about nursing conceptual models, grand … Continue reading Foundations of Nursology Syllabus: Another New Resource on Nursology.net
Connotations of Research Speak: The Meaning of Words Used in Research Reports
Do we allow or invite people to participate in research? Do we refer to people who volunteer to be in a study as subjects or respondents or informants or participants or people? This blog is about the language we use when we present or publish our research. The impetus for this blog was a colleague’s … Continue reading Connotations of Research Speak: The Meaning of Words Used in Research Reports
Primary Care, Primary Nursology, and the Attending Nursologist: Connections to Nursology Conceptual Models and Theories
Contributor (with Jacqueline Fawcett): Katherine Richman This blog is meant as a follow up to Christine Platt’s (2020) blog, “A Nurse Practitioner’s Perspectives on Theory in Practice.” Ms. Platt’s mention of primary care led us to recall primary nursing. Primary care refers to the type of care offered by nursologists, typically nursologists who hold graduate … Continue reading Primary Care, Primary Nursology, and the Attending Nursologist: Connections to Nursology Conceptual Models and Theories
Power in Nursing
illustration by Chris Rubino Power has been a concern to all living beings – humans and animals – since the beginning of time. Nursologists have been sensitive to power issues at least since Florence Nightingale’s time. It is likely, however, that power has different meanings for different people, including those who hold positions associated with … Continue reading Power in Nursing
By and For Numbers: Meaningless Without Theory
Source We have always lived in interesting and challenging times, filled with reports of numbers indicating what is happening – life expectancy, births, deaths, and most likely millions of other numbers representing important and probably not so important events. Currently, we are living in what many people regard as an especially interesting and challenging time, … Continue reading By and For Numbers: Meaningless Without Theory
Uncertainty in Life and in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Uncertainty is, in many ways, a human condition—each of us most likely feel uncertain about something at least some time in our life. However, the current covid-19 pandemic has brought forth a time of what is great uncertainty for many people worldwide. What, though, is the meaning of uncertainty and the outcome of feeling uncertain? … Continue reading Uncertainty in Life and in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Value of Primary Prevention
The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us of the primacy of primary prevention to maintain wellbecoming. The governmental recommendations or requirements for quarantines or sheltering in place during the pandemic are targeted to primary prevention. However, few people worldwide unfortunately think primary prevention. Instead, far too many global citizens avoid vaccinations or screening tests and wait until … Continue reading The Value of Primary Prevention
What is Reflected in a Label about Health? Non-Nursology and Nursology Perspectives
Posted the first week of March, which is designated as National Words Matter Week A long time ago, I read an editorial in a journal decrying the labels for women’s reproductive health issues. The point was that labels such as incompetent cervical os are pejorative words. At about the same time, I began to think … Continue reading What is Reflected in a Label about Health? Non-Nursology and Nursology Perspectives
Transitions in Leadership Positions: Is There a Best Time?
As we know, leaders transition to and from their positions within educational and clinical institutions. Meleis’ transitions theory, which focuses on “the human experiences, the responses, [and] the consequences of transitions on the well-being of people” (Meleis, as cited in Fawcett, 2017, p. 347) tells us that transitions may be anticipated, experienced in the here … Continue reading Transitions in Leadership Positions: Is There a Best Time?
Another First for Nursology!
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 … Continue reading Another First for Nursology!
Margaret Ruth McCorkle 1940-2019
Guardian of the DisciplineIn Memoriam Published in The New Haven Register on Aug. 19, 2019 Retrieved from https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nhregister/obituary.aspx?pid=193674212 Ruth McCorkle was born in Johnson City, TN. Peggy Chinn (personal communication, October 12, 2019) reminded me that Martha E. Rogers also was born in Johnson City, TN. Ruth earned a baccalaureate degree in nursing from the University … Continue reading Margaret Ruth McCorkle 1940-2019
What is Real Nursing and Who are Real Nurses? Perspectives from Japan
Thank you to the graduate students and faculty from St. Mary's College, Kurume, Japan, who contributed to this blog! Hayes (2018) published a thought-provoking article, "Is OR Nursing Real Nursing," in the September 2018 issue of the Massachusetts Report on Nursing. Her article was the catalyst for my invitation to students enrolled in the Fall … Continue reading What is Real Nursing and Who are Real Nurses? Perspectives from Japan
Dolores (Dee) Krieger (1921-2019)
Guardian of the DisciplineIn Memoriam Dolores (Dee) Krieger, RN, PhD, was a professor emeritus in what was the Division of Nursing at New York University (NYU) in New York City, when she retired. Dee was born in Paterson, New Jersey, not far from New York City. She earned a diploma in nursing at the Westchester … Continue reading Dolores (Dee) Krieger (1921-2019)
The Environment, Climate Change, and the #Climate Strike: A Nursology Perspective
with contributions by Peggy Chinn Also see Adeline Falk-Rafael's "addendum" to this post below The nursology.net management team agreed to participate in the September 20, 2019 #Climate Strike - Nursology.net went to a green screen acknowledging the importance of this public action for the entire day on September 20th. By doing so, we joined people … Continue reading The Environment, Climate Change, and the #Climate Strike: A Nursology Perspective
How to Teach Nursology: A New Resource on Nursology.net
The nursology.net management team is very pleased to announce a new resource for educators of nursology – Teaching/Learning Strategies. This resource is devoted to explanations of diverse approaches to teaching nursology. The first approach focuses on one way to teach the APPLICATION of nursology conceptual models and theories for practice. This teaching strategy involves teams … Continue reading How to Teach Nursology: A New Resource on Nursology.net
Searching the Literature of Nursology: Strategies for Success
Finding relevant literature is, of course, crucial for any scholarly work. I have been searching the literature about nursology discipline-specific conceptual models and theories for many, many years. When I first started these literature searches in the 1970s, I had to use printed indexes, which was exceedingly tedious and time-consuming, although I admit to enjoying … Continue reading Searching the Literature of Nursology: Strategies for Success
Grayce M. Sills (1926-2016)
Guardian of the Discipline Thank you to Sharon Tucker, PhD, RN, FAAN and Christina Nyirati, RN, PhD for their contributions to this post (see bios below). Grayce Sills, RN. PhD, FAAN, is widely recognized as a “pioneer . . . and supporter . . . of psychiatric mental health nursing . . . a champion … Continue reading Grayce M. Sills (1926-2016)
Who IS the First!
This blog is a follow up to the Who Will Be First? blog posted on May 21st. We now have an answer to that question! I recently learned from Sr. Callista Roy that a research center in her name included the word, nursology, in the center title. The title is: Roy Academia Nursology Research Center. … Continue reading Who IS the First!