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
Professional Issues
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
Empowering nurses through nursing theories
Contributor: Patrícia Sofia Oliveira Fonseca Nunes “He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast”. Leonardo da Vinci. For several years, nursing has been recognized as the backbone of worldwide health systems (1). The World Health Organization has urged … Continue reading Empowering nurses through nursing theories
One Size Fits All Does NOT Apply for the Spanish-Speaking Population
Contributors: Maribel Alcala MHSM, BSN, RN, Angeles Nava, Ph.D., RN andFrancisco Javier Ayala DNP, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, CCRN Introduction According to the United States Census Bureau (2019), Spanish-language speakers represented 13.5% of the United States population, making Spanish the second most spoken language in the U.S. (Christy et al., 2021). Spanish speakers are projected to … Continue reading One Size Fits All Does NOT Apply for the Spanish-Speaking Population
Living Elizabeth Barrett’s Power Theory with ChatGPT
Contributors Dorothy Larkin, PhD, RN, and Christopher Moorhead, BA On May 1, 2023 I asked my new technical consultant son in law, Christopher Moorhead, to engage with me in a ChatGPT experiment with hypothetical students. GPT stands for Generative Pre-Training and has been in development for five years now by OpenAI. As a praxis informed … Continue reading Living Elizabeth Barrett’s Power Theory with ChatGPT
Request from the Society of Rogerian Scholars
From Violet Malinski The Resource Development Committee of the Society of Rogerian Scholars is attempting to locate the following people who have developed research tools within the framework of the Science of Unitary Human Beings (SUHB). If they are no longer physically present, we would like to contact a family member, if possible. Our hope … Continue reading Request from the Society of Rogerian Scholars
Notable Works: Carter, M. A., & Haji Assa, A. S. (2023). The problem of comparing nurse practitioner practice with medical practice
Notable Works Co-contributors: Kunta Gautam, Ralph Klotzbaugh, Christopher Reeves Carter and Haji Assa (2023) have written an intriguing and thought-provoking paper about the “curious” historical and continuing comparison between the practice of nurse practitioners (NPs) and that of physicians (MDs). They contended that the ontology and epistemology of NPs and MDs are so different “that … Continue reading Notable Works: Carter, M. A., & Haji Assa, A. S. (2023). The problem of comparing nurse practitioner practice with medical practice