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
Nursing Practice
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
We Trained Them to Control—Then Sent Them to the Community
Contributor - Rudolf Cymorr Kirby Martinez, PhD, MA, RN, CGNC, CNE, WWCC, HWNC-BC, AHN-BC, SGAHN, FFNMRCSI I am a nurse educator who considers myself a holistic and transcultural nurse practicing primarily in community settings. Students often describe community health nursing as one of the most fulfilling fields of nursing, yet it remains an unpopular choice … Continue reading We Trained Them to Control—Then Sent Them to the Community
Moving Towards Cultural Humility in Advanced Practice Nursing Education
Contributor: Hannah Scranton Contemporary nursing practice occurs within social and structural contexts that shape both health outcomes and clinical relationships. While cultural competence has been incorporated into U.S. nursing curricula, its emphasis on knowledge acquisition and generalized cultural characteristics is insufficient for preparing nurses to engage with complex, intersecting identities and power dynamics in contemporary … Continue reading Moving Towards Cultural Humility in Advanced Practice Nursing Education
Doing Nursing Without Understanding Nursing: Why Nursing Theories such as NurCaM Matters
Contributor - Rudolf Cymorr Kirby Martinez, PhD, MA, RN, CGNC, CNE, WWCC, HWNC-BC, AHN-BC, SGAHN, FFNMRCSI I am a nurse educator from the Philippines who has been in academia for at least 12 years. I started in nursing education at the baccalaureate level, handling students in Community Health Nursing clinical rotation. During this time, I … Continue reading Doing Nursing Without Understanding Nursing: Why Nursing Theories such as NurCaM Matters
Integrating Peplau’s Theory in Managing the Communication of Bad News in Oncology Nursing
Contributor - Elodie Alves de Carvalho “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” - Peter Drucker. Joining a nursing team in an Oncology Day Hospital means, on a daily basis, providing care in contexts of profound vulnerability. Within this setting, the communication of bad news emerges as an inevitable and deeply … Continue reading Integrating Peplau’s Theory in Managing the Communication of Bad News in Oncology Nursing
Norwegian Nurse Educators Recognize that Nursing Theories are of Vital Importance…Do You?
Contributor: Savina O. SchoenhoferCo-developer of the theory of Nursing As Caring Source: ChatGPT A study of Norwegian nurse educators’ perceptions of the meaning of nursing theories at the baccalaureate level, recently published in the Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences (Kvande et al., 2026) prompted me to ask the question that titles these reflections. That focus … Continue reading Norwegian Nurse Educators Recognize that Nursing Theories are of Vital Importance…Do You?
How the Burnout Crisis is Hurting Nurse Leaders
Contributor - Obidigwe Adaora Victoria, RN Burnout leads to turnover, says Claire Zangerle, CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership. And she should know. As a chief nurse executive, she’s been working at Ground Zero. While chatting with Chief Healthcare Executive, Zangerle didn’t sugarcoat the issue. She calls it a problem because that’s exactly … Continue reading How the Burnout Crisis is Hurting Nurse Leaders
Flames of Our Unity
Guest Contributor: Rachell NguyenDoctor of Philosophy Student at Texas Woman's University Alone and in despairLost in a world without sightCrouched in melancholic postureDarkness slowly overtakes light.The soul’s luster starts to dimWhen, suddenly, flames appearFrom a distance, they come closerFear not, as help is finally near!As the flames grow closer together,They unite with the lost soul … Continue reading Flames of Our Unity