Contributors - Rocedeelynn Roan, Jacinda Willeto,Atheina Tsinijinnie, Cristina Rivera Carpenter We are honored to share the development of the K’é Nursing Model - A culturally grounded approach to care. This model is rooted in Navajo (Diné) philosophy and aligns nursing practice with Indigenous knowledge systems while honoring sacred relationships and healing practices. Close your eyes … Continue reading The K’é Nursing Model
Nursology theory development
Notable Works–Decolonizing Knowledge: An Example from Japan
Notable Works “Nursing Philosophy and Theory in Japan: Current Trends and Challenges” (Sakashita et al. 2025) has rapidly emerged as a notable work that provides a very important advancement in decolonizing nursology knowledge. Evolution of Nursology Knowledge in Japanese Doctoral Nursing Programs The authors are commended for their systematic, scholarly approach to tracing the evolution … Continue reading Notable Works–Decolonizing Knowledge: An Example from Japan
Primary Nursing: A Methodological Theory
Contributors: Mia HaddadandJacqueline Fawcett(member of the Nursology.net Advisory Team) This blog presents a proposal to categorize nursology practice delivery models as methodological theories. Such theories can be thought of as assertions about the how, when, and where of implementing a way of practicing nursology, although not about the why of practice. Defining practice delivery models … Continue reading Primary Nursing: A Methodological Theory
Bringing It Out There
Contributor: Maya Zumstein-Shaha The Expert Panel Nursing Theory-Guided Practice of the American Academy of Nursing regularly organizes webinars on nursing theories. The developers of these theories present their work. Subsequently, there is time for discussion with the attending audience. In February 2024, I was able to present my theory called The Omnipresence of Cancer. Below, … Continue reading Bringing It Out There
Nursology Conceptual Models, Theories, and Specialties
This blog is an extension of one that I posted on nursology.net in December, 2018 (Fawcett, 2018). In that blog, I asked what specialties could be considered legitimate for our discipline and proposed that nursology specialties should be based on the concepts of each nursology conceptual model (see the Models and Theories Gallery). The Alphabet … Continue reading Nursology Conceptual Models, Theories, and Specialties
Hallmarks of Success in Nursology Theory Development, Research, and Practice
Notable Works During the 1980s, I was the sole author or co-author of a trilogy of papers about what I referred to as Hallmarks of Success. The first paper was Hallmarks of Success in Nursing Theory Development (Fawcett, 1983). The second paper was Hallmarks of Success in Nursing Research (Fawcett, 1984a, 1984b). The third paper … Continue reading Hallmarks of Success in Nursology Theory Development, Research, and Practice
Evolution of One Version of Our Disciplinary Metaparadigm
This blog presents the evolution of my version of nursology’s metaparadigm. I present this blog in the context of my admittedly Eurocentric white privilege perspective. Therefore, I very much welcome comments and other blogs that present different perspectives. Jacqueline Fawcett What apparently is the origin of the idea of or word for metaparadigm comes from … Continue reading Evolution of One Version of Our Disciplinary Metaparadigm
Remembering Betty Neuman (September 11, 1924 – May 28, 2022)
In Memoriam Source Betty Neuman was born and raised on a farm in rural Ohio and died in the early morning hours of May 28, 2022 near Seattle, Washington, where she had located several years ago to be near her family. Betty Neuman is the nursology theorist who developed the Neuman Systems Model, a widely … Continue reading Remembering Betty Neuman (September 11, 1924 – May 28, 2022)
Closing the “Secondary” Research-Theory-Practice-Application Gap: Charting a Path for Advancement of Nursology Knowledge in Implementation Science
with co-contributor Jacqueline Fawcett The purpose of this blog is to highlight the importance of nursology theories in the field of implementation science- a science that focuses on generating knowledge about the “research-theory-practice-application” gap between evidence-based interventions (i.e. effective interventions) and how these interventions work or are applied (i.e. implementation strategies) in the “real-world” usual/routine … Continue reading Closing the “Secondary” Research-Theory-Practice-Application Gap: Charting a Path for Advancement of Nursology Knowledge in Implementation Science
Race and Microaggression in Nursing Knowledge Development*
Notable works Hall, J. M., & Fields, B. (2012). Race and microaggression in nursing knowledge development. ANS. Advances in Nursing Science, 35(1), 25–38. https://doi.org/10.1097/ANS.0b013e3182433b70 Exactly ten years ago, in the January-March 2012 issue of Advances in Nursing Science, an article appeared titled “Race and microaggression in nursing knowledge development” authored by Joanne Hall and Becky … Continue reading Race and Microaggression in Nursing Knowledge Development*
Bringing Theory To Life
Guest Contributor - Erin C. Stratton, PhD, RN When I was young, becoming a nurse was not something I had ever considered. By happy chance, during college while reading a friend’s Fundamentals of Nursing book, I came to the realization that being a nurse combined three of my favorite subjects: science, math, and people. I … Continue reading Bringing Theory To Life
A Radical Imagination for Nursing?
In a recent article published by Nursing Philosophy, I make the case for cultivating a radical imagination for nursing. In this blog post, I will explore the connections between this radical imagination and its possibilities for nursing theory. The realities of the COVID19 pandemic have created hardships that we all experience, albeit in different ways. … Continue reading A Radical Imagination for Nursing?
Why I Chose a Career in Theory Development in Nursing Science
During the years between 1977 and 1979 I was pursuing a Master of Science degree with a focus on psychiatric mental health nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University. It was a time of professional excitement and personal struggle. I was a single father of an adopted three-year old daughter. I had delayed pursuing my graduate degree … Continue reading Why I Chose a Career in Theory Development in Nursing Science
Fostering dialogue about practice knowledge development in a DNP Curriculum; Opportunity for theory innovation?
Guest Contributor: Lydia D. Rotondo, DNP, RN, CNS, FNAP The practice doctorate in nursing developed in response to an increasingly complex healthcare landscape that requires additional competencies for 21st century advanced nursing practice. Complementing traditional graduate (MS) specialty curricula, the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program of study incorporates additional curricular content in the areas … Continue reading Fostering dialogue about practice knowledge development in a DNP Curriculum; Opportunity for theory innovation?
Selling Theory
He lounged in the chair, laptop nestled in his lap. “Here, look at this,” he waived toward his screen. I bent over, squinting, and saw a colorful graph of lines that reminded me of a holiday decoration. “It’s a stochastic model of cellular growth….” He went on to mention the conditions that were being modeled, … Continue reading Selling Theory
Guest Post: Mid-Range Theory: In the Gap or In The Dark?
Contributor: Teresa Tarnowski Goodell, PhD,RN,TCRN,CWCN A recent post by Karen Foli presents a perennial nurse educators’ problem: students finding nursing theory irrelevant in practice. A commenter wrote, “If I have a patient crashing, I’m not going to stand there and theorize about how to treat the patient!.” The remark illustrates the theory-practice gap perfectly; the … Continue reading Guest Post: Mid-Range Theory: In the Gap or In The Dark?
The Intersections of Nursing Scholarship and Nursing Activism
In the early 1980s when Maeona Kramer and I first began to put together ideas for a text on theory development in nursing, we were committed to addressing nursing knowledge development beyond the typical boundaries of empirical research and theory development. We had both completed, in 1971, doctoral degrees in Educational Psychology (Maeona at Wayne … Continue reading The Intersections of Nursing Scholarship and Nursing Activism
What is Reflected in a Label about Health? Non-Nursology and Nursology Perspectives
Posted the first week of March, which is designated as National Words Matter Week A long time ago, I read an editorial in a journal decrying the labels for women’s reproductive health issues. The point was that labels such as incompetent cervical os are pejorative words. At about the same time, I began to think … Continue reading What is Reflected in a Label about Health? Non-Nursology and Nursology Perspectives
Nurse-Specific Trauma: Let’s Give It a Name
Welcome to Karen J. Foli, PhD, RN, FAAN who is joining the Nursology.net blogging team! Karen is the author of the Middle Range Theory of Nurses'-Psychological Trauma, the Middle Range Theory of Parental Postadoption Depression and co-author of the recently published book The Influence of Psychological Trauma in Nursing When I was earning my PhD, my … Continue reading Nurse-Specific Trauma: Let’s Give It a Name
Are We Ready to Utilize Concept Analyses To Advance Nursology? Could This Be a Way Forward?
“Rosemary, we found a recent citation of your research”, is a message I receive from ResearchGate whenever there is a new citation to my work! One message was another citation to one of my early papers (Eustace & Ilagan, 2010), which was the report of a concept analysis of HIV disclosure, published in the Journal … Continue reading Are We Ready to Utilize Concept Analyses To Advance Nursology? Could This Be a Way Forward?