https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQM5ybyiC5c Once again, with apologies to J. S. Bach, composer of Cantata no. 140, Sleepers Awake, these are my random thoughts of "Who Will be the First?" among nursology leaders while I was a sleeper awake one very early morning (see our first "sleepers awake" post: What if?). Here are my random "Who will be … Continue reading Who Will be the First? More Random Thoughts of a Sleeper Awake
Author: jacquelinefawcett
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
Nursologists and Their Comic Character Avatars
Once upon a time, I had a faculty colleague who had a wonderful sense of humor. She could even inject humor into the statistics and research methods courses she taught. Unfortunately, I did not have anything close to her sense of humor. However, she assured me that it was very difficult to find humor in … Continue reading Nursologists and Their Comic Character Avatars
The Impossibility of Thinking “Atheoretically”
Some nursologists have claimed that they are “atheoretical.” When asked what they mean, they tend to say that they do not subscribe to or use a particular conceptual model or theory when conducting research or practicing. However, it is, according the physicist turned philosopher of science, Sir Karl R. Popper (1965), it is “absurd” to … Continue reading The Impossibility of Thinking “Atheoretically”
Breaking the Silence-Exploring Perceptions of Power as Freedom in the World of Nursologists
by Julianne Mazzawi, Jacqueline Fawcett and Rosanna DeMarco In 2015, the American Nurses Association released a purpose and position statement indicating that it is an individual and shared responsibility among all nursologists and employers to promote and sustain a culture of respect that is free of incivility, bullying, and workplace violence. Such a culture reflects … Continue reading Breaking the Silence-Exploring Perceptions of Power as Freedom in the World of Nursologists
What are Legitimate Nursology Specialties?
Bittencourt, Marques, and Mendes Diniz de Andrade Barroso’s (2018) paper, published in Revista de Enfermagem Referência, catalyzed my thoughts about labels for legitimate specialties in the discipline of nursology. (Scroll down for information about the authors and access to the article website.) Clearly, concern for nursology-discipline specific knowledge is of interest to our scholar colleagues … Continue reading What are Legitimate Nursology Specialties?
Our Name: Why Nursology? Why .net?
Why Nursology? At least since the publication of Donaldson and Crowley’s (1978) seminal paper titled The Discipline of Nursing, nurses have been considered members of a discipline. A discipline (the term comes from the Latin disciplina) is a branch of instruction or learning and is a way of organizing knowledge. Different disciplines are distinguished one from … Continue reading Our Name: Why Nursology? Why .net?