Contributed by Jennifer StephensNursology.net Advisory Team Nursing theorists seem to be clear about what the discipline is aiming for. Jean Watson describes caring as nursing’s moral ideal, Kristin Swanson defines it as a nurturing way of relating to a valued other, and Boykin and Schoenhofer hold that every person is caring by virtue of being … Continue reading Caring or “Karing”: Reflections on the Essence of Nursing
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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
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
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
The Three “M” Effects and Nursing Theory
Contributed by Karen J. FoliNursology.net Advisory Team One of the things I enjoy is learning about phenomenon that helps me process and explain experiences. The truth of this was evident when I read the letter to the editor of Nursing Outlook by Lisa Kelly (2025), who encouraged our nurse scientists to explore the issue of … Continue reading The Three “M” Effects and Nursing Theory
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
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
Nursing Has an Autonomy Problem, and We’re Finally Talking About It
Contributor - Obidigwe Adaora Victoria The year 2024 was supposed to be a turning point for North Carolina. Or at least that’s what Megan Conner and her colleagues thought. Instead, it put nursing back by decades. The Safe, Accessible, Value-directed and Excellent Health Care Act (SAVE Act) could have kept Conner’s patients out of the … Continue reading Nursing Has an Autonomy Problem, and We’re Finally Talking About It
Anticipatory Grief: An Undergraduate Lesson Plan
Guest Contributor: Cheryl J. Bostelman MSN, RN Nursing programs across the United States teach students using the latest research and evidence-based practices. The entire human lifespan, from conception to death, is brought into the nursing classroom. Death can unfortunately occur at any time during the lifespan. When administering palliative and hospice care, the topic of … Continue reading Anticipatory Grief: An Undergraduate Lesson Plan
When the Scalpel Meets Sustainability : The Hidden Future of Surgical Nursing
Guest Contributor: Sheroza Gulzar AliBScN, MScN candidate, Aga Khan University It was a Tuesday morning—the kind that begins with an espresso and a theatre board listing twelve laparoscopic cholecystectomies. I remember pausing, gloved hands hovering over the back table, as the scrub tech ripped open another bundle of disposable instruments. Behind us, three orange biohazard … Continue reading When the Scalpel Meets Sustainability : The Hidden Future of Surgical Nursing
When Exhaustion Speaks, Let Nature Answer: The Secret Sound That Revives Nurses
Guest Contributor: Rimsha SaleemMSCN student at Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan Life in the Rhythm of Natural MusicWhat is life? People often see life as an endless circle of activity where time passes but peace and meaning lost somewhere. Sometimes the true essence of life seems lost rather than fully experienced in the chaos of … Continue reading When Exhaustion Speaks, Let Nature Answer: The Secret Sound That Revives Nurses
A Nurse’s Instinct, A Life Saved
Van Nguyen DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC, FNP-C, PMGT-BC One of the most rewarding moments in my nursing career came unexpectedly during a routine shift that became anything but routine. I was assigned to care for a 52-year-old male with esophageal cancer, seven days post-op after an esophagectomy. Esophageal cancer accounts for 2.6% of all new cancer … Continue reading A Nurse’s Instinct, A Life Saved
The Heart Disease Crisis in the US: A Clarion Call for Nurse-Led Team-Based Care Models Across Clinical and Community Settings.
Contributor - Thomas Hinneh Nursing, at its core, is a discipline of response to human need, suffering, inequity, and the evolving realities of health and illness. Today, the growing burden of heart disease requires more than response; it demands urgent leadership and innovation in our approach to care. It calls for a reimagining of how … Continue reading The Heart Disease Crisis in the US: A Clarion Call for Nurse-Led Team-Based Care Models Across Clinical and Community Settings.
Tug of War
Contributor - Rachell Nguyen Equal strength being pulled from both sidesNeither willing to concede to the otherPulling with all the will-power in the worldSwearing to not give in to one another. Such as the concepts of rules and empathy,The fall of one breaks life’s tranquility,No rules brings chaos, no love conveys spite,All order loses its … Continue reading Tug of War
Maslow Got It Backwards
Guest Contributor: Shahnawaz Soomro At some time in our lives, the majority of us have come across Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, perhaps at a management training session, in a psychology textbook, or on a motivational poster on someone's office wall. It is a tidy, reassuring pyramid. The most fundamental physiological needs, food, drink, shelter, and … Continue reading Maslow Got It Backwards