Contributor: Thelma Ogochukwu Ejimofor Mental health is a critical topic in America, yet the conversation often overlooks a key demographic: young African immigrants. Whether they came to the U.S. early in life or were born to African parents in the United States, these individuals face unique mental health challenges that are rarely acknowledged. I know … Continue reading Breaking the Silence: Mental Health, Suicide, and the Untold Stories of African Immigrant Youth in the U.S
Reflections
Rethinking Nursing: Moving Beyond Heroic Narratives
Guest Contributor: Hyeyoung HwangDNP/PhD student at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing I still remember the excitement and nervousness I felt on the day of the Nightingale Pledge ceremony. Almost all nursing schools in South Korea, where I was born and raised, hold this ceremony to prepare nursing students for patient care. Before starting clinical … Continue reading Rethinking Nursing: Moving Beyond Heroic Narratives
The Importance of Transcultural Care in Migrant Children: Contributions of Leininger’s View
Guest Contributor: Carolina Ferreira MarcelinoMaster's student in Child and Pediatric Health NursingCatholic University of Portugal (Lisbon) The migratory phenomenon has reached historic levels in recent months. It is expected to continue to increase, either to search for better socioeconomic conditions or to run away from violence, conflicts, and natural disasters. According to the United Nations … Continue reading The Importance of Transcultural Care in Migrant Children: Contributions of Leininger’s View
Transpersonal Caring as Ontological Artists: Using Healing with the Arts as a Guide Towards Transcendence
Contributor: Ruth SimmonsRuth Simmons on. Nursology.net Aesthetic Knowing Art allows access to the spirit and promotes profound experiences of healing through imaginative expression of emotions through intuition and caring.1 Just as the artist serves as a conduit for an image to come to life through a paintbrush, the mindbodyspirit of the nurse emerges as a … Continue reading Transpersonal Caring as Ontological Artists: Using Healing with the Arts as a Guide Towards Transcendence
Self-care in heart failure patients: a 21st-century problem?
Contributor: Maria João Dias Ferreira I'm part of the nursing team at a Heart Failure Outpatient Clinic (HFOC), where we apply a multidisciplinary approach to patients with Heart Failure (HF). This model encompasses two strands of nursing care: a scheduled nursing consultation, where various topics are covered in teaching sessions for self-care and self-management of … Continue reading Self-care in heart failure patients: a 21st-century problem?
Parental presence and the establishment of the therapeutic relationship: Theoretical reflections in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Contributor: Laura Sophia da Silva I've been working as a nurse in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for about five years. In this unit, parents are only allowed to stay in the NICU during the night in situations where the newborn is facing imminent death. The restriction of parents' presence can be justified for … Continue reading Parental presence and the establishment of the therapeutic relationship: Theoretical reflections in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
From Novice to Expert Overnight: The Hidden Toll of Rapid Advancement on Nursing Burnout
Contributor: Lisa Kelly In the fast-paced world of nursing, the journey from novice to expert is a critical path that every nurse must navigate. Patricia Benner's theory of Novice to Expert offers an understanding of how nurses develop their skills and expertise over time. However, in today's post-pandemic healthcare environment, as the nursing shortage continues … Continue reading From Novice to Expert Overnight: The Hidden Toll of Rapid Advancement on Nursing Burnout
Vulnerability and Aging
Contributor: Lyn Durnell Enlightenment on what makes us think and act the way we do leads to self-discovery into what perhaps was ingrained in us as children. As a young girl, I remember my mom teaching me the importance of how to properly carry myself. My mom told me to never talk about myself to … Continue reading Vulnerability and Aging
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?
Facing my fear: my success in personal transformation
We may run away from our physical location, change residence, change our job, change our routine, but we can never change our inner being, our true self. After living in one location for 12 years, I moved to a different part of the town. I had lots of fond memories attached to the old town. … Continue reading Facing my fear: my success in personal transformation
Upcoming Dialogues on Unitary Science
Contributor - Patty Bartzak, DNP, RN, TCRN, CMSRN, CNRN Please join us on Monday, February 5, 2024 from 4:30 to 6:00 PM Eastern for the Society of Rogerian Scholars’ Dialogues on Unitary Science. The purpose of our Dialogues is to learn and deepen our understanding of the Science of Unitary Human Beings. The dialogue will … Continue reading Upcoming Dialogues on Unitary Science
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
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
Mentorship in Advanced Practice Nursing
“I work with children too, but I have not encountered anyone approaching them and their families as you do.” My mentee told me on her first day shadowing at the clinical site. She was a nurse practitioner (NP) student whom I was assigned to be a mentor for her clinical rotation. I was unsure which … Continue reading Mentorship in Advanced Practice Nursing
Gender Inclusivity Lessons as a Novice Researcher: Reflecting on Emancipatory Knowing
Contributor: Kelsie Barta, MSN, APRN, FNP-C, IBCLC As a people pleaser at heart, I would not have believed you if you told me five years ago that a social media post sharing my dissertation recruitment information would be met with “laugh” and “angry” reactions, and that I’d be fine with it! In recent years, there … Continue reading Gender Inclusivity Lessons as a Novice Researcher: Reflecting on Emancipatory Knowing
The Best Nursing Job: Fulfilling My “Why” in Nursing Through the Nurse-Family Partnership Program
Contributor - Jessica K. Cochran, BSN RN At the age of 29, three weeks deep into the haze of being freshly postpartum, I found myself on the couch seemingly continuously nursing my new baby and glued to the coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I was particularly riveted by the story of a young … Continue reading The Best Nursing Job: Fulfilling My “Why” in Nursing Through the Nurse-Family Partnership Program
Emancipatory Knowing Praxis
Contributor/Nurse/Artist: Tashaé Gomez-Jones In the spirit of the U.S. Independence Day celebrated on July 4th, we welcome this powerful image from recent BSN graduate Tashaé Gomez-Jones, inspired by the concept of emancipatory knowing in nursing! My name is Tashaé Gomez-Jones. I am a recent BSN graduate from Heritage University located on the Yakama Nation reservation … Continue reading Emancipatory Knowing Praxis
Life-Work Balance: A Roper-Logan-Tierney Model of Nursing Perspective
The scarcity of the nursologist workforce, coupled with the huge challenges of the current pandemic have underscored the need for care of ourselves as we live in a time of personal, professional, and political uncertainty about what will happen to each of us and our significant others and when whatever will happen will occur. We … Continue reading Life-Work Balance: A Roper-Logan-Tierney Model of Nursing Perspective
Nursing Theories in “my Biomedical World” – a personal reflection
Contributor: Manuel Jesús Aragón Aragón In this post I try to show the difficulties that I felt when I tried to apply nursing theories to practice in my work and personal reality for the first time. I understand that theories are an excellent resource to improve the quality of our care; for that reason in … Continue reading Nursing Theories in “my Biomedical World” – a personal reflection
Is there Caste in Nursing? Owning Our History and Reconnecting the Disconnect
Contributor: Mary Elaine Southard DNP, RN, MSN, APHN-BC, HWNC-BC, DipClHom, SRP, SGAHN What led to the writing of this post was the reading and reflection on Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent and Brene Brown’s Dare to Lead. I wondered how the messages in both books related to nursing in today’s healthcare … Continue reading Is there Caste in Nursing? Owning Our History and Reconnecting the Disconnect