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
COVID-19
Holding Space for COVID-19 Nurses
Contributor: Justin McFail, MSN, RN The world of nursing is changing. Healthcare has shifted. Nurses are leaving the profession in droves. Perhaps a side effect of the psychological trauma we experienced as a profession. The pandemic forever changed a generation – its ripples echo further than we yet understand, and I sit here at a … Continue reading Holding Space for COVID-19 Nurses
Coping with the loneliness imposed by COVID-19 in light of Betty Neuman’s theory
Contributor Loredana Mihu (Portugal) I share my experience about the nursing care I provided to patients infected with COVID-19 during their hospital stay. The patients admitted to my service are mostly elderly. This is a particularly vulnerable population, either due to chronic disease, comorbidities that condition their physical and psychological dependence, and above all due … Continue reading Coping with the loneliness imposed by COVID-19 in light of Betty Neuman’s theory
Jean Watson’s Contribution to Understanding the Spiritual Well-Being of Caregivers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Contributor: Vanessa Silva (Portugal)* Over the centuries, human history has experienced numerous challenges in the area of health and disease, namely through the experience of pandemic realities, such as the Black Death in the 19th century and the Spanish Influenza in the 20th century, in which there was a high mortality and morbidity rate associated … Continue reading Jean Watson’s Contribution to Understanding the Spiritual Well-Being of Caregivers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Using Leininger’s Culture Care Theory to examine the idiom of distress experienced by nursing faculty working with pre licensure students during the COVID-19 pandemic
Contributor: Judith M. Pare, PhD, RN “Care can be an individual, familial, tribal, communal, organizational, or institutional value or expression; it can be held as a single value or a system of belief” (McFarland & Wehbe-Alamah, 2015, p. 220). The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate use of Leininger’s (2002) Culture Care Theory (CCT) … Continue reading Using Leininger’s Culture Care Theory to examine the idiom of distress experienced by nursing faculty working with pre licensure students during the COVID-19 pandemic
Theory’s Reality in Nursing Practice: Florence Nightingale’s Legacy
Contributor: Isabel Faia The contemporary imbalance in environmental matters predominantly involve climate change and our supposedly beloved home planet’s ecosystems issues. Human beings are continuously disrespectful of their relationships with the universe ecosystem. Humankind is responsible to a great extent for this state of “dysbiosis” of our planet, which is similar to the state of … Continue reading Theory’s Reality in Nursing Practice: Florence Nightingale’s Legacy
COVID-19 Through the Lens of Nursing Theories
Contributor: Navninder Kaur, MSN, CMSRN It all started in January of 2020 when the news started circling around about a contagious viral disease spreading in the East. The situation was not much of a concern, with a thought that just like other diseases like SARS, which originated and spread in one region, it will subside … Continue reading COVID-19 Through the Lens of Nursing Theories
Guest post: The Overlooked Impact of Case Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Contributor: Christy McDonald, BSN, RNC, Case Manager I have witnessed an amazing workforce in our hospitals during this pandemic. While physicians and nurses are clearly lifesavers at the bedside, hospital rooms are scarce. These frontline workers need the partnership of nurse case managers to arrange safe discharges and free up beds for those waiting in … Continue reading Guest post: The Overlooked Impact of Case Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes to the meaning of our experiences based on Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness (HEC)
Report from the Newman Theory/Research/Practice Society (a Japanese Nonprofit Organization) Contributors: Emiko Endo, Satoko Imaizumi, Minako Kakimoto, Yayoi Kajiwara, Yoshie Kamiya We are pleased to write our blog about the 2020 work of the Newman Theory/Research/Practice Society in Japan. We submitted a brief about our Society on January 10, 2019 (scroll down here to see … Continue reading Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes to the meaning of our experiences based on Newman’s theory of health as expanding consciousness (HEC)
Trauma-informed teaching in the era of COVID-19
See Dr. Foli's "Middle Range Theory of Nurses' Psychological Trauma" 2020 was the year I applied trauma-informed approaches to my teaching. This was the year I learned being kind and compassionate were also good pedagogical practices. In previous years, I have been recognized as an “award-winning” teacher. I did all the things a good teacher … Continue reading Trauma-informed teaching in the era of COVID-19
2020 was the year . . .
Anyone alive today (except the yet unborn!) will forever relate a memorable end to this sentence . "2020 was the year . . . "! For a handful of humans all over the globe, there will be those who end this sentence with "2020 was the year I was born, and I survived the great … Continue reading 2020 was the year . . .
The Marathon of Crisis: “We Want to Live Also”
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”
Everyone is a “novice” when encountering a new challenge or situation: A perspective from Benner’s theory
Source Although many experienced nurses consider themselves as experts in their fields of practice, it is important to keep in mind that they, too, become novices when they encounter a new clinical challenge or situation such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Benner’s (1984) theory, From Novice to Expert, is an excellent nursology theory that can guide … Continue reading Everyone is a “novice” when encountering a new challenge or situation: A perspective from Benner’s theory
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
Beyond the Boxes: Connecting Theory and Practice in a Pandemic
Guest contributor: Ellen E. Swanson This is post is the final section of the new “Practice Exemplar” describing the application of Mandalas in nursing See also related Education Exemplar In the process of writing the "Using Mandalas - An Holistic Approach to Practice" exemplars, Peggy Chinn shared with me that we need to “work toward a … Continue reading Beyond the Boxes: Connecting Theory and Practice in a Pandemic
Never a Guardian: Remembering Breonna Taylor
Want to learn more about Nursing and Racism? Read the following Nursology blogs: Nursing and Racism and Decolonizing Nursing. Artwork used with permission of the artist Ariel Sinha The Guardians of the Discipline is a series featured on Nursology.net as a way to commemorate the giants whose shoulders we stand on as we forge our … Continue reading Never a Guardian: Remembering Breonna Taylor
Orem’s Self-Care Theory: A Critical Theory to Tanzania Nurses in the Wake of COVID-19
Guest author: Katunzi Mutalemwa with Rosemary Eustace see also Practice Exemplar Self-Care Theory in Tanzania Self-care is an integral part of nursing care delivery systems. Pioneered by Dr. Dorothea Orem, the self-care theory offers nurses with unique opportunities for health promotion, disease prevention and rehabilitation care worldwide. Self-care supportive-educative strategies through health promotion and prevention … Continue reading Orem’s Self-Care Theory: A Critical Theory to Tanzania Nurses in the Wake of COVID-19
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
Struggling to Find Air: Emancipatory Nursing Response to COVID-19
Guest Contributor: Kathleen 'Katie' Clark, DNPEdited by Kaija Freborg, DNP “I can’t breathe.” If these words were uttered in any healthcare setting in the country, an influx of healthcare providers would rapidly respond, attempting to save the person's life by providing immediate care. These words not only represent the recent murder of George Floyd, but … Continue reading Struggling to Find Air: Emancipatory Nursing Response to COVID-19
COVID-19 – What would Margaret Newman say?
Dorothy Jones and Jane FlanaganSee also Newman's Theory of Healthas Expanded Consciousness Although not the only global challenge we face, COVID-19 has the world’s attention while disrupting so many familiar routines. For those so fortunate, there is the new normal of working from home and countless conference calls that seem to blur one day into … Continue reading COVID-19 – What would Margaret Newman say?