Contributor: Rebecca Jayne Burns In this digital age, the post you are reading is already outdated. So, I am not far off base when pondering the relevance of nursing theory’s place here. Does nursing theory and technology align? In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the integration of nursing theory with technology has emerged as a … Continue reading Integrating Nursing Theory with Technology: Enhancing Patient Care in the Digital Age
Professional Issues
Words Matter
These days I am immersed in a major writing project - preparation of the 12th Edition on the text that many nursing students have learned to refer to as "Chinn and Kramer"! This edition is co-authored with my colleagues Lucinda Canty and Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu. With each edition of any textbook, there are major updates to … Continue reading Words Matter
Where are the Stepping Stones in Nursing Education?
Contributor - Lesley Hodge It was 2007. The boom was hot. Jobs were plentiful. As a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) student, I got a job as a Nursing Attendant (NA) in long term care. The unit had about 80 residents, and the floor plan was so lengthy that I recall one RN there … Continue reading Where are the Stepping Stones in Nursing Education?
Nurses and Self-Compassion
A few months ago, I spoke at the Northwest Indiana Nurses Research Consortium about nurses and Self compassion (thank you Marsha King and Lynette Rayman for this opportunity). I traced the notion of giving mercy and compassion to oneself back to the genesis of why so many of us chose nursing as our profession: our … Continue reading Nurses and Self-Compassion
Understanding the Cup: A Reflection on How Nurses Understand Self-Care
Contributor - Justin McFail, MSN, RN Understanding how to care for myself is not selfishness, it’s altruism for oneself. The adage goes something like, “you can’t pour from an empty cup.” If there’s one thing that I’ve learned working, broken, exhausted, and maybe perhaps recovered from the years of my life that nursing has given … Continue reading Understanding the Cup: A Reflection on How Nurses Understand Self-Care
Radical Nurse Talk
Contributor: Patricia H. Strachan RN PhD For many years I have been trying to understand and promote ways that nurses could speak with patients who are living with one or more serious illnesses, about what are often termed “difficult” issues. When nurses refer to difficult conversations, the subject (or perhaps person or family) is thought … Continue reading Radical Nurse Talk
Murmuration: The Balance between Leading and Following in Nursing
Contributor: Mary Elaine Southard I was outside this evening when a beautiful occurrence caught my eye. A flock of hundreds of birds did a dance of a murmuration. I watched in awe at this phenomenon and wondered about its significance. A murmuration of starlings Source "In a murmuration, each bird sees, on average, the seven … Continue reading Murmuration: The Balance between Leading and Following in Nursing
Holding Space for COVID-19 Nurses
Contributor: Justin McFail, MSN, RN The world of nursing is changing. Healthcare has shifted. Nurses are leaving the profession in droves. Perhaps a side effect of the psychological trauma we experienced as a profession. The pandemic forever changed a generation – its ripples echo further than we yet understand, and I sit here at a … Continue reading Holding Space for COVID-19 Nurses
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
Due Diligence: Sifting the Dependable from the Dubious
Mysteries of Publishing The avalanche of information that has occurred since the emergence of the World Wide Web has resulted in an amazing, almost unlimited access to realms previously unimagined! In addition to amazing benefits, there are also hazards that are still emerging in a context that might be best labeled the 'World Wild Web"! … Continue reading Due Diligence: Sifting the Dependable from the Dubious