Everyone who participated in the 2023 Virtual Nursology Theory Week had amazing exposure to the kind of discourse that nurtures and advances theoretical and conceptual thought in the discipline! We will be posting reflections and resources over the coming few weeks here and on the Nursology Virtual Theory Conference website! If you are a student, a … Continue reading 2024 March 21-25 Nursology Virtual Theory Week Scheduled – Save the Dates!

Here at Nursology.net, we support students and early career scholars who are conducting nursing-theory guided research. Today, we are happy to announce a study in need of our support titled, "Tertiary Nursing Care for People with Pulmonary Sequelae of COVID-19: An Interpretive Description Study," by masters of nursing student Cameron Albright BScN, RN from Athabasca … Continue reading Recruitment Support for Student Research in Nursing/Nursology

Contributor: Carla Alexandra dos Santos Pacheco I've been an operating room nurse for 19 years and from the beginning until today I've always made it a point to protect the person in my care. It was beautiful to see, read and feel much of what I put into practice daily in the theories of comfort … Continue reading Promoting comfort in the operating room for patients undergoing elective surgery

Wishing all of our Nursology.net visitors warm holiday greetings! We will return in the New Year with our regular messages to honor our nursology heritage and to inspire our future!

Contributor: Samantha JuanEdD candidate, Teachers College Columbia University This is the fourth in a series of posts about a nursology study conducted by a student-faculty group from the Online Nursing Education (ONE) program at Teachers College Columbia University. The study, "Use of Foundational Concepts in Program and Course Descriptions: An Analysis of Prelicensure Baccalaureate Nursing … Continue reading Will robots replace nurses? It depends.

Contributors: Virginia Ramos dos Santos Souza andJacqueline Fawcett Several patterns of knowing have been identified and some literature about the various patterns has been published (see https://nursology.net/patterns-of-knowing-in-nursing/). However, little is known about how these patterns are explicitly identified or reflected in the nursing literature. This blog is a report of a secondary analysis of data … Continue reading The Hunt for Patterns of Knowing: Focus on Latin American Nursology Journals

The concept of “nursing” is very abstract and can take many forms. It may be living entities’ activities to promote or regain their own health (self-care), professional nurses’ direct care of patients’ who need assistance in self-care, or indirect patient care through teaching, research, administration, and/or policy development. I believe this broad view of nursing … Continue reading My Fulbright Scholar Experience: Through a Nursing Lens

Contributors: Fernando Riegel, PhD; Lucas Daniel Ribas, NS;Ingrid Soares Amaral, NS & Jaqueline Ribeiro, NS (Brazil) In December of 2021, Professor of Nursing Fernando Riegel and three undergraduate students (Lucas Daniel Ribas, Ingrid Soares Amaral, and Jaqueline Ribeiro), had an experience of nursing as caring for families in a stress situation. The experience was guided by … Continue reading An Experience of Caring for Families: Listening to the Call for Holistic Nursing

The theme for this year’s Virtual Nursology Theory conference will be “Creating Communities to Inspire Nursing Knowledge Development,” inspired by the work of four leading nurse theorists from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) – Dorothy Johnson (Behavioral Systems), Sr. Callista Roy (Adaptation), Betty Neuman (Systems Model), and Afaf Meleis (Transitions). As you develop … Continue reading 2023 Nursology Virtual Theory Conference Abstract submission open now through December 1st!