Contributor: Jane M. Georges, PhD, RN Ann Lawani, Phd, MSN, RN My former PhD student, Dr. Ann Lawani, has been arrested, shackled, and "disappeared" into the ICE detention system without her family's knowledge of where she is. My Emancipatory Theory of Compassion is based on the philosophical assumption that when toxic biopolitical spaces are created … Continue reading A Call to Action: A nurse scholar has been arrested, shackled, and hidden in ICE’s system
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Kabaybay: The Filipino Nurse Coach
Contributors: Rudolf Cymorr Kirby P. Martinez and Linda Bark What exactly is nurse coaching? Nurse coaching (NC) is defined as a skilled, purposeful, results-oriented, structured, relationship-centered, interaction-based role with clients, grounded in the precepts of Holistic Nursing. Nurse Coaches are educated in advanced communication strategies, skills, and knowledge with the understanding that clients are the … Continue reading Kabaybay: The Filipino Nurse Coach
Caring for the Years: University Dialogues and Visions on the Relationship Between Nursing and Older Adults
Contributors: Dr. Francisco Javier Arroyo Cruz and Students of 402 Care Bioethics, Escuela Superior de Tlahuelilpan UAEH. How do we ensure that nursing education goes beyond theoretical rote learning? Traditionally, we turn to textbooks, analyze principles within a classroom setting, and hope students can apply them later in clinical practice. However, nursing care—especially the care … Continue reading Caring for the Years: University Dialogues and Visions on the Relationship Between Nursing and Older Adults
The Machines Aren’t Coming: They’re Here
Guest Contributor: Blake McNeill MSN, RN “It can’t be reasoned with. It can’t be bargained with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear… and it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.” -Kyle Reese (Cameron, 1984). AI may not yet be trying to wipe out humanity, but many fear losing their jobs … Continue reading The Machines Aren’t Coming: They’re Here
Beyond Clinical Hours: A Deweyan Perspective on Nurse Practitioner Education
Contributor- Julie Durand Generated by ChatGPT Nurse practitioner education increasingly emphasizes competency-based curricula, accreditation standards, and measurable outcomes. As nursing educators and leaders, however, our responsibility extends beyond ensuring that students can demonstrate competencies. We must also create learning experiences that cultivate inquiry, reflection, critical thinking, and a commitment to lifelong learning. More than a … Continue reading Beyond Clinical Hours: A Deweyan Perspective on Nurse Practitioner Education
A Call to Action: Strengthening Youth-Friendly HIV Services for Improved Access and Outcomes
Contributor - Celumusa C. Ndlangamandla Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) aged 13–29 have unique health needs that change as they grow. If our health services do not adapt alongside them, we risk losing them, not just from the clinic, but from care altogether. In 2021, I witnessed this firsthand while working as a mental … Continue reading A Call to Action: Strengthening Youth-Friendly HIV Services for Improved Access and Outcomes
Before Healthcare Builds on AI, We Need to Fix the Foundation
Contributor - Melinda Rubinstein Nurses have long carried the burden of disconnected health information. As healthcare enters the AI era, nurse designers have a critical role in shaping the data foundation for what comes next. Nurses rarely have the luxury of caring for a patient with the whole story neatly assembled in front of them. … Continue reading Before Healthcare Builds on AI, We Need to Fix the Foundation
At a Crossroads: From Evidence-Based Practice to Phenomenological Inquiry and Critical Caring
Guest Contributor - Maria D. (Rosie) Guerrero, DNP, NP-C, AOCNP As a student in a bridging program from the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) to the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), I have encountered the challenge of transitioning from an evidence-based, practice-focused way of thinking to one grounded in philosophical and scientific inquiry. As a practicing … Continue reading At a Crossroads: From Evidence-Based Practice to Phenomenological Inquiry and Critical Caring
When Disaster Nursing Became More Than a Lecture: Learning to Be Ready Before the Emergency
Guest Contributor: Wasi Ullah KhanGBSN Student Dow universityHaseeb AhmedRegistered Nurse (RN), PRN, BSN, MSN ScholarNursing Faculty and Mentor, Aga Khan University Introduction Disaster nursing is an important area of nursing education because emergencies and disasters can create sudden increases in patient needs while healthcare resources, personnel, time, and information may become limited. Effective preparedness therefore … Continue reading When Disaster Nursing Became More Than a Lecture: Learning to Be Ready Before the Emergency
Beyond “Putting Theory Into Practice”: What Patricia Benner Teaches Us About Nursing Knowledge
Guest Contributor: Nkem Nneka Kimberly ChieduPhD in nursing student, Texas Woman's University How many times have nurses heard the phrase, “putting theory into practice”? The phrase has become so familiar that nurses may rarely stop to question what it assumes about where nursing knowledge comes from. It seems to suggest that knowledge originates somewhere outside … Continue reading Beyond “Putting Theory Into Practice”: What Patricia Benner Teaches Us About Nursing Knowledge
Life as Caring
La vida como cuidado Contributor - Midalys Quevedo Navarro If caring, at least for one day, could be personified, it would surely not have just one face, but thousands of different faces reflected in every human encounter, revealing itself as life itself, with shades that mirror the diversity and wonder of our existence. It would … Continue reading Life as Caring
From Fear to Peace: What the Bhagavad Gita Can Teach Us About End-of- Life Care
An Exemplar of Personal and Spiritual Knowing Contributor - Vrinda Hymavathy As a nurse practitioner, I have cared for many patients and families as they faced the end of life. Their experiences have taught me that people can approach death in very different ways. One patient, a relatively young man with a progressive neurological illness … Continue reading From Fear to Peace: What the Bhagavad Gita Can Teach Us About End-of- Life Care
Theory of Diversity of Human Field Pattern
Contributor - Marie Hastings-Tolsma, PhD, CNM, FACNM I was lucky enough to know Dr. Martha Rogers during doctoral studies at New York University. She was one of a kind and she made me rethink everything I had held sacrosanct in nursing. As I listened to her view of the world, I had to rethink my … Continue reading Theory of Diversity of Human Field Pattern
Is It Time to Move from Individual to Network Consciousness? Revisiting Health as Expanding Consciousness in an Era of Social Complexity Science
Guest Contributor: Raymond R. Romano, III Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC) transformed nursing's understanding of health by reframing disease as manifestations of an evolving life pattern.1 The theory has generated decades of scholarship and insights into practice. Newman's greatest insight may have been that consciousness is revealed through pattern.2 If patterns can emerge not only … Continue reading Is It Time to Move from Individual to Network Consciousness? Revisiting Health as Expanding Consciousness in an Era of Social Complexity Science
Lost in Translation, Found in Caring: Overcoming Linguistic Distortions of “Care” vs. “Caring”
Guest Contributors: Midalys Quevedo Navarro, Assistant Professor & PhD Student, Faculty of Medical Sciences of Mayabeque, CubaANDTetsuya Tanioka, Professor of Nursing, Tokushima University, Japan | Director, Rozzano Locsin Institute Within nursing and the human sciences, the translation of concepts is not a mere linguistic exercise but a significant task that requires safeguarding the essence of … Continue reading Lost in Translation, Found in Caring: Overcoming Linguistic Distortions of “Care” vs. “Caring”
From Student to Staff Nurse: The Reality No One Talks About
Guest Contributors: M. Jalal Naeem and Romaisa NaeemBSN Students, Dow Universitywith Haseeb AhmedRegistered Nurse (RN), PRN, BSN, MSN Scholar, Nursing Faculty and Mentor, Aga Khan University The transition from nursing student to professional nurse is not simply a title change. It is a transformation in identity, responsibility, and resilience.Graduation from nursing school is frequently regarded … Continue reading From Student to Staff Nurse: The Reality No One Talks About
Beyond signing a form: relational ethics in research with older adults
Más allá de firmar un formulario: la ética relacional en la investigación con personas mayores Contributor - Francisco Javier Arroyo Cruz As nursing professionals, or as researchers, we often find ourselves with a dual identity. On the one hand, we have the need to generate science and knowledge in the face of global demographic aging; … Continue reading Beyond signing a form: relational ethics in research with older adults
Beyond Borders: The Moment I Realized There Is More Than One Way to Be a Good Nurse
Contributor - Aaron Salinas, MSN, DNP I arrived in Poland expecting to learn new clinical skills. What I did not expect was to learn something about myself. During a simulation, our team responded to a patient experiencing severe hypoglycemia. The patient was unconscious, and the situation required immediate action. I was working alongside nurses and … Continue reading Beyond Borders: The Moment I Realized There Is More Than One Way to Be a Good Nurse
The Quiet Legacy of Care: Honoring Nurses Beyond the Headlines
Contributor – Obidigwe Adaora Victoria The recent death of ICU nurse Alex Pretti sparked nationwide protests against ICE and President Trump’s immigration policies. Federal law enforcement agents fatally shot the 37-year-old in Minneapolis, citing him as a “domestic terrorist.” Pretti’s tragic killing also points to something more urgent and telling. Every day, healthcare professionals, particularly … Continue reading The Quiet Legacy of Care: Honoring Nurses Beyond the Headlines
What we can learn from Kaginhawahan, the telos of Filipino caring
Contributor – Rudolf Cymorr Kirby P. Martinez, PhD, RN Within the Theory of Nursing Situation as Caring Moment (NurCaM), kaginhawahan is defined as the Filipino’s collective aspiration for an optimal human condition and the full flourishing of human potential (Martinez, 2026). It is the telos of Filipino caring—the end toward which all caring actions are … Continue reading What we can learn from Kaginhawahan, the telos of Filipino caring