None of us expected the pandemic to last this long. In March, we rallied against the growing and terrible virus, the SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2). At that time, we hunkered down, businesses temporarily closed to stem off the rising numbers of infection, and we all kind of figured it would end in … Continue reading The Marathon of Crisis: “We Want to Live Also”
Author: Karen Foli
COVID-19 and Psychological Trauma
I feel guilty as I write this. You see, I’m home with my family, safe and warm. Protected. Others, my comrades and fellow nurses are not. But I can guess, and have read and been informed of what they are facing on the front lines: reassigned to new hospitals and new duties, rendering care, sometimes … Continue reading COVID-19 and Psychological Trauma
Say It Ain’t So: Graduate Students Shade Nursing Theory!
Karen J. Foli, PhD, RN, FAAN I’d finished grading the last of the master’s-level students’ theory in nursing papers. I’d turned in final grades and then, the message came through: anonymous student course evaluations were ready for my review. I took a long sip of water and put my organic, no preservative, granola bar aside. … Continue reading Say It Ain’t So: Graduate Students Shade Nursing Theory!
Nurse-Specific Trauma: Let’s Give It a Name
Welcome to Karen J. Foli, PhD, RN, FAAN who is joining the Nursology.net blogging team! Karen is the author of the Middle Range Theory of Nurses'-Psychological Trauma, the Middle Range Theory of Parental Postadoption Depression and co-author of the recently published book The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing When I was earning my PhD, my … Continue reading Nurse-Specific Trauma: Let’s Give It a Name