Contributor - Nicole DePace MS, APRN, GNP-BC, ACHPN In “Taking Care: The Story of Nursing and Its Power to Change the World,” journalist Sarah DiGregorio explores what it means to be a nurse, examining the past and present with a hopeful gaze toward the future. This book is about what it means to be a … Continue reading A Love Letter to Nurses Expressed Through Stories of Our Past, Present, and Future: “Taking Care” by Sarah DiGregorio
Professional Issues
Nursing Activism, Compassion and Freedom
There are many reasons, in this year of 2024, for people worldwide to be reflecting on the meaning of freedom. Ongoing wars between nation groups bring into sharp focus the reality of power imbalances that encroach on the freedoms of those with less power. Struggles for basic human rights rage internally in nations around the … Continue reading Nursing Activism, Compassion and Freedom
Embracing Cultural Diversity in Nursing: A Personal Journey and Reflection on Leininger’s Theory
Contributor: Natalie J. Serrano, MSN, RN, ACUE Reflecting on diversity and caring through the lens of our experiences reveals that these experiences are not just crucial, but transformative. They shape our unique voices and expressions within our cultures, and they have the power to inspire and motivate others. It took me time to grasp the … Continue reading Embracing Cultural Diversity in Nursing: A Personal Journey and Reflection on Leininger’s Theory
Deception and Examination: Gleaning from Patterns of Knowing in Nursing to Expose Healthcare Fraud
Contributor: T'Neecia Leigh Applewhite MBA MS APRN FNP-C Nurses are not just the backbone of the healthcare systems worldwide but also the vigilant guardians against healthcare fraud. As the largest and most trusted healthcare occupation in the United States, with over 3.4 million registered nurses, we are more than just healthcare workers. We are innovative … Continue reading Deception and Examination: Gleaning from Patterns of Knowing in Nursing to Expose Healthcare Fraud
When Will We Give Space to Silent Voices?
Contributor: Crystal Garvey VNTW 2024 was a well-organized, thought-out conference. It is an event where nursing theorists and philosophers are given space to present and demonstrate scholarship through a unique epistemological lens. I appreciated how the event coordinators were intentional about creating space for researchers to present on topic areas that are not considered mainstream … Continue reading When Will We Give Space to Silent Voices?
“Everybody’s Work: Healing What Hurts Us All” – A Film Addressing Racism in Nursing
On this website, we focus on what we, as nurses, know, and how we come to establish what is known as knowledge. The mystery of it all is the fact that even though we all have common experiences of the world, and we frequently proclaim that we share a common core of values, purpose and … Continue reading “Everybody’s Work: Healing What Hurts Us All” – A Film Addressing Racism in Nursing
Integrating Nursing Theory with Technology: Enhancing Patient Care in the Digital Age
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
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
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