Contributor - Kathleen Donaher-Keough, PhD, RN Why This Matters to Nursing Source From a nursing policy perspective in the United States, defining collaborative care as an Essential Health Benefit (EHB) aligns reimbursement, workforce utilization, and quality outcomes with what nurses already do every day: coordinate, assess, educate, and sustain care across settings and time. Primary … Continue reading Collaborative Care as an Essential Health Benefit (EHB)
Policy
Emancipatory and Sociopolitical Knowing: A Nurse and Albert Schweitzer Fellow’s Experience
Contributor: Jasmine Perkins Social media platforms connect people globally and have become a meeting space for expressive dialogue among nurses and healthcare professionals. A recent post in a nursing group, “Keep the politics out of nursing,” prompted me to question whether nursing and politics can be kept separate. I’ll answer this later, but first, what … Continue reading Emancipatory and Sociopolitical Knowing: A Nurse and Albert Schweitzer Fellow’s Experience
Bridging Quality Improvement and Theory
Contributor: Hephzibah Thomas Kurt Lewin's Change Theory provides a structured approach to understanding change at the group, organizational, and societal level (Burnes, 2004). Despite its age, this theory remains highly relevant for modern healthcare quality improvement initiatives due to its focus on both systems and human behavior change. Lewin conceptualized change as occurring through three … Continue reading Bridging Quality Improvement and Theory
How to Talk about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: And Why it is Important for Nursing to Do So
Contributor: Donna J. PerryAuthor of "Transcendent Pluralism" theoryAlso see "An Urgent Need for Peace" blog post Fifteen years ago, as I was finishing up my last trip for peace research in Israel and Palestine, I asked my Palestinian taxi driver how the situation was on the ground. He said that tensions were rising and he … Continue reading How to Talk about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: And Why it is Important for Nursing to Do So
The Elephant in the Room: The ICN’s New Definitions of ‘Nurse’ and ‘Nursing’
Contributor - Robin R. Walter PhD, RN, CNE Picture this: A room full of nurses from all over the world is discussing nursing and what it means to be a nurse. Their goal is to reach consensus on global definitions of ‘nurse’ and ‘nursing.’ A huge elephant quietly dominates the center of the bustling room, … Continue reading The Elephant in the Room: The ICN’s New Definitions of ‘Nurse’ and ‘Nursing’
The Silent Struggles of African Immigrants: A Push for Inclusive Health Research
Contributor - Frances Okpaluba Approximately one in ten Black individuals in the United States is an immigrant (Pew Research Center, n.d). Between 2000 and 2019, the population of Black African immigrants (AI) from Sub-Saharan Africa increased by 246%, from approximately 600,000 to 2 million. Consequently, individuals of Sub-Saharan African descent now represent 42% of the … Continue reading The Silent Struggles of African Immigrants: A Push for Inclusive Health Research
Texas’ HB3817: What Nurses Need to Know About the Latest Anti-Trans Legislation
Guest Contributors: Kendrick T. Clack and Jasmine Perkins A new wave of anti-trans legislation is sweeping across the United States, and Texas is leading the charge. One of the most alarming bills under consideration is House Bill 3817 (HB3817), which seeks to make "gender identity fraud" a state jail felony. If passed, this law could … Continue reading Texas’ HB3817: What Nurses Need to Know About the Latest Anti-Trans Legislation
Nurses Join Together in Solidarity and Resistance
2025 Nurses' Declaration of Solidarity and Resistance Nurses worldwide share a deep concern, even horror, as we witness the violent and unjust assaults the Trump administration is committing against the health and well-being of people who reside within the borders of the United States. In March, Sally Thorne, Editor of Nursing Inquiry, published an editorial … Continue reading Nurses Join Together in Solidarity and Resistance
“We Were Made for These Times”
This is the title of Sally Thorne's editorial in Nursing Inquiry published on March 11, 2025. The editorial is "free access" - meaning that reading and downloading the PDF file is free of any cost. Her message is clear - in the face of organized and powerful assaults on human health and freedom, nurses are … Continue reading “We Were Made for These Times”
What Does Intersectionality Have to Do with Nursing?
In nursing, we have a strong and steady commitment, in theory and in practice, to the idea of "the whole" This idea is expressed in the term that is sometimes spelled with the letter "w" (wholism), and sometimes starting with the letter "h" (holism). The difference between the spellings is subtle, but noticing this difference, … Continue reading What Does Intersectionality Have to Do with Nursing?
Power, racism, and the imperative of advocacy in the nursing profession: A call to action from the Tennessee Three
Contributor: Jean Croce Hemphill, PhD, FNP- BC The power of position, of conferred authority, and the power of societal and cultural privilege, converged this month in the state of Tennessee resulting in the silencing of diverse voices demanding action against gun violence. Given the moniker, the Tennessee Three, Justin Pearson, Gloria Johnson, and Justin Jones, … Continue reading Power, racism, and the imperative of advocacy in the nursing profession: A call to action from the Tennessee Three
Policy With or Without Theory: Questions to be Answered
Contributors:Chantal Cara, Jacqueline Fawcett, Deanna Gray-Miceli, M. Lindell Joseph, and Maya Zumstein-Shaha We maintain that health policies of interest to nursologists must be based on explicit nursology knowledge, thereby providing the necessary specific perspective that helps distinguish nursology from other scientific disciplines. We know, however, that not all nursologists agree with our position. Therefore, the … Continue reading Policy With or Without Theory: Questions to be Answered
Nurse as Patient Part 2: Anomalies in Normal Science*
Photo by Jan Antonin Kolar on Unsplash I believe there is more to say about the “nurse as patient,” a necessary shift in our thinking about the global crisis in nursing. Let me start by describing an article I use in one of my courses. This semester, I am the instructor of record for a … Continue reading Nurse as Patient Part 2: Anomalies in Normal Science*
Women’s Rights are Human Rights: Women’s Health is Human Health
On this momentous day in the United States, as we witness the blatant evil heaped on American women by the Supreme Court action to end the protection of abortion access, it is time to renew our commitment as a discipline to the optimum health and well-being of all. The U.S. now joins Russia, North Korea … Continue reading Women’s Rights are Human Rights: Women’s Health is Human Health
The Point is to Change It: Nursing Theory and Ending Gun Violence
Contributors*: Danielle Walker MSN, PMHNP-BC @danielletanikaRobin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FAAN @RobinCoganRae Walker PhD RN FAAN @UMassWalkerJess Dillard-Wright, PhD, MA, RN, CNM @midwifingtherevolutionJane Hopkins-Walsh MSN, PNP-BC @_radicalnursing Once again, the world looks on as the United States wrings its hands, inert in the face of white supremacist gun violence and mass death. The thoughts and … Continue reading The Point is to Change It: Nursing Theory and Ending Gun Violence
In Search of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Communities
First they came for the communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a communist Then they came for the socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a socialistThen they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionistThen they came … Continue reading In Search of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Communities
Guest Post – Nursing’s call to action to address the social determinants of health
Guest contributors: Kelli DePriest, PhD, RNPaul Kuehnert, DNP, RN, FAAN Teddie Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN Recently, several Expert Panels of the American Academy of Nursing collaborated to draft a new conceptual framework and consensus statement related to social determinants of health. The year-long endeavor integrated the thoughts and expertise of 15 nursing leaders. The outcome of … Continue reading Guest Post – Nursing’s call to action to address the social determinants of health
Letter to the ANA
On September 26, 2020, the Nursology.net management team sent the following letter to the American Nursses Association, urging the organization to take a stand on the U.S. Presidential election candidates. We believe that given the dual pandemic of COVID-19 and racism, nursing's strong voice of advocacy for the health of the nation must be heard. … Continue reading Letter to the ANA
Posthumxnism and the Pandemic
Co-contributors with Jessica Dillard Wright:* Jane Hopkins Walsh Brandon Blaine Brown "One of the things that’s coming to light is how the global spread of a microscopic virus is placing the ravages of racism and inequity under the microscope. But the fact is, we don’t all see the same thing! Racism has a way of … Continue reading Posthumxnism and the Pandemic
Visions for 2020 – the Year of the Nurse
To all Nursology.net visitors - welcome to the Year 2020! As we enter this year, we members of the site management and blogging teams join in celebrating the "Year of the Nurse and Midwife" and offer our visions for the coming year and beyond! The year 2020 was designated In January 2019 by the World … Continue reading Visions for 2020 – the Year of the Nurse