Guest Contributor: Ann M. StalterCommunity/Public Health Nurse Educator Local governments make decisions daily that shape the health and well-being of communities, yet nurses rarely serve on the boards and councils where these decisions occur. The absence of nurses in such political spaces is significant because they comprise the largest sector of the health care workforce … Continue reading Russell–Fawcett Model and Local Governance for Community Health Nursing Praxis
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Collaborative Care as an Essential Health Benefit (EHB)
Contributor - Kathleen Donaher-Keough, PhD, RN Why This Matters to Nursing Source From a nursing policy perspective in the United States, defining collaborative care as an Essential Health Benefit (EHB) aligns reimbursement, workforce utilization, and quality outcomes with what nurses already do every day: coordinate, assess, educate, and sustain care across settings and time. Primary … Continue reading Collaborative Care as an Essential Health Benefit (EHB)
Reflections on Person versus Patient Centered Care
Guest Contributor: Cassidy J. OhnstadDNP (psychiatric mental health) student, University of Wyoming Person-centered care (PCC) is a valuable approach to holistic, individualized care that contrasts with the current cookie-cutter model of healthcare. Unlike patient-centered care, which often focuses narrowly on illness and treatment, PCC recognizes the person as a whole being with unique experiences, values, … Continue reading Reflections on Person versus Patient Centered Care
Taking Care of Us: Giving Voice to Both Sides of the Family Care Experience
Contributor: Karen S. Lyons, PhD, FGSA Growing up in Ireland gave me a great love for the art of story-telling and shared narratives, especially in times of stress and grief. But I also realized that there could be many sides to the same story and that it was far less important to determine if there … Continue reading Taking Care of Us: Giving Voice to Both Sides of the Family Care Experience
For the ICE Agent on the Morning News
Poet – Marilyn McEntyre What happened to you? Who hurt you into angerso deep all you know to dois hurt and hit, all you seeblurred by a fog of rage? What stuck sluicegatedammed the flow of feeling, cut off the curious hopeyou surely had when youwere five, when you worea hat with bunny ears? What touch … Continue reading For the ICE Agent on the Morning News
A Pantoum in Memory of Alex Pretti
Poet - Amy Haddad, MSN, MFA, PhD, FAAN, Nurses move toward those who suffer.Nurses respond with compassion,even in the face of personal danger.His instinct was to help, not attack. He responded with compassion.He reached out to protect a stranger knocked to the ground;tried to help, not attack.Shakey phone videos of his murder repeat and repeat. … Continue reading A Pantoum in Memory of Alex Pretti
Pavane for a Dead Nurse
Poet - Marilyn McEntyre You know what to do. You step up.You step in. Sometimesyou don’t ask. You just act.In the ICU, in the icy street,you watch. You’ve seenmore harm than most.You know how death maycome in the thick of things,how utterly one momentmay be divided from the nextby a bullet, a cry, a breath.Prone … Continue reading Pavane for a Dead Nurse
Call Them Somali Americans
Contributor - Kathleen "Katie" Clark, DNP, RN Witness - Why we cannot look away I write this as a nurse educator in Minneapolis, where federal immigration enforcement has become part of everyday life. As nurses, we have a fundamental responsibility to respond to the crises and challenges of our time, centering on emancipatory approaches. As … Continue reading Call Them Somali Americans
Reducing Mental Health Stigma in Nursing Education: Lessons from Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations Theory
Contributor - Elouise Runnels Ford, RN, MSN, MHEd Mental illness remains one of the most stigmatized health conditions worldwide, and stigma often extends into healthcare, including nursing (Ben Natan, Drori, & Hochman, 2024). Nurses play a critical role in supporting individuals with mental health challenges, yet unintentional biases can influence the care they provide and … Continue reading Reducing Mental Health Stigma in Nursing Education: Lessons from Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations Theory
The Nurse as Broken Glass
Contributor - Rachell NguyenAesthetic Knowing Broken into many scattered pieces,The nurse lies shattered and broken.Light temporarily dims, sound decreases,Similar to death, unspoken. Yet, behold, the glass can be mended full,Tougher and more durable than ever,The nurse stands up from torment’s pull,Wiser, stronger, even more clever. The glass still has its beauty and brightness,Even through pain, … Continue reading The Nurse as Broken Glass
Truth in Action and Presence in Practice: Integrating Gandhi’s Philosophy and the Careful Nursing Model in Contemporary Nursing
Contributor - Julie Joseph, MSN,RN, CCRNPhD Student, Texas Woman's University A Global Journey Toward Truth and Presence in Nursing Having practiced in India and Ireland, and currently working in the United States, I have observed nursing from diverse cultural perspectives. Across these contexts, one insight remains constant: nursing is more than a profession; it is … Continue reading Truth in Action and Presence in Practice: Integrating Gandhi’s Philosophy and the Careful Nursing Model in Contemporary Nursing
Restoring the Bridge Between Nursing Theory and Clinical Practice: A Call to Rebalance
Contributor - Aissatou GueyePhD student, Boston College Connell School of Nursing “When nurses cross freely between the two shores of theory and practice, knowledge becomes wisdom, and practice becomes an act of artistry and consciousness.” In nursing classrooms, we speak of caring as both art and science—an integration of empirical evidence, aesthetic knowing, personal presence, … Continue reading Restoring the Bridge Between Nursing Theory and Clinical Practice: A Call to Rebalance
Teaching Community Health Nursing Innovatively with Nursology Knowledge–Pender and Watson
Guest Contributor: Jennifer M. HackelAdjunct Professor of Nursing, University of Southern Maine Teaching Community Health Nursing to undergraduate students during the pandemic offered this professor a good opportunity to ground them in nursology. The clinical placement for my section of eight students was immersing them in the community where I live -- a rural unbridged … Continue reading Teaching Community Health Nursing Innovatively with Nursology Knowledge–Pender and Watson
From Survivor to Scientist: Confronting Intimate Partner Violence Across the Caribbean Diaspora
Contributor - Diana Dupelord, BSN, RNRecent graduate, Florida International University At a young age, I viewed intimate partner violence (IPV) as a problem reserved for adults. Based on IPV: A Loop of Abuse, Depression, and Victimization, an increased exposure to IPV during adolescence can be a predictive indicator of interpersonal violence occurring 15 years later … Continue reading From Survivor to Scientist: Confronting Intimate Partner Violence Across the Caribbean Diaspora
Reducing Implicit Bias in Nursing: Lessons from Watson and Leininger
Contributor: Serena Tobar Implicit bias is a quiet yet powerful influence in healthcare. It affects decisions, communication, and patient outcomes—often without our awareness (FitzGerald & Hurst, 2017). As nurses, we strive to provide equitable and compassionate care, but unconscious assumptions can obstruct that goal. In addition to academic knowledge, nursing theories offer practical frameworks for … Continue reading Reducing Implicit Bias in Nursing: Lessons from Watson and Leininger
From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Projects to PhD Candidacy: A Reflection on Nursing Knowledge and Representation
How lived experiences, cultural identity, and emancipatory knowing expand what counts as nursing knowledge Guest Contributor: Patricia Isela RegaladoPhD candidate in Nursing, Texas Woman's University Nursing has always been more than a profession for me- it is a calling shaped by survival, service, and a deep conviction that knowledge must reflect the realities of the … Continue reading From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Projects to PhD Candidacy: A Reflection on Nursing Knowledge and Representation
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) 25th Quadrennial Congress in Melbourne, May 2013: A Personal Recollection
Contributor - Miriam Hirschfeld, DNSc, RN Late in the year 2012 I am approached by Canadian colleagues requesting my help in their campaign to elect Prof. Judith Shamian, the Canadian Chief Nurse, as President of the International Council of Nurses (ICN). Judith is a friend, I am delighted to try to help, knowing also that … Continue reading The International Council of Nurses (ICN) 25th Quadrennial Congress in Melbourne, May 2013: A Personal Recollection
Health Literacy: Patient Empowerment in Outpatient Surgery and the Role of the Nurse.
Guest Contributor: Marta Patrícia Marques LameirasMasters student in Medical-Surgical Nursing at the Catholic University of Portugal School of Nursing in Lisbon Thought: "Education, whatever it may be, is always a theory of knowledge put into practice." Paulo Freire Health literacy is a fundamental pillar for patient empowerment, especially in outpatient surgery contexts, where hospitalisation time … Continue reading Health Literacy: Patient Empowerment in Outpatient Surgery and the Role of the Nurse.
Intersection of Caring and Technology: How Nursing Theory Can Guide Us
Contributor - Janet L. Attisha2025 Nursology.net Intern Statistician and nurse theorist Florence Nightingale used data and the polar area diagram to advocate for better health outcomes of British soldiers injured in the Crimea War (Bostridge, 2020). Fast forward from Nightingale to today and we are in an era of envisioning the tailored treatment of disease … Continue reading Intersection of Caring and Technology: How Nursing Theory Can Guide Us
Facing Failure: Lessons from Research on Marginalized Populations in an Unstable Political Culture
Contributor - Rachel Krogstie, MSN, RNNurse Educator | Ph.D. Student in Nursing Science According to the International Diabetes Federation, the United States has the third-highest number of adults with diabetes (International Diabetes Federation, 2025). Of these adults, an overwhelming majority are in a minority ethnic group. Mexican and Mexican American people with diabetes make up … Continue reading Facing Failure: Lessons from Research on Marginalized Populations in an Unstable Political Culture