Offered by the SRS Martha E. Rogers Scholars FundWebsite Amount: Up to $5000 will be awarded for one grant Deadline for submissions: November 1st annually Grant Purpose Source To support continued testing, application, evaluation of impact, and policy implications of Barrett’s Power as Knowing Participation in Change Theory. First recipient Marianne Ditomassi, DNP, RN, MBA, … Continue reading Call for Submissions – Elizabeth Ann Manhart Barrett Grant
Theory Guided Research
Theory of Diversity of Human Field Pattern
Contributor - Marie Hastings-Tolsma, PhD, CNM, FACNM I was lucky enough to know Dr. Martha Rogers during doctoral studies at New York University. She was one of a kind and she made me rethink everything I had held sacrosanct in nursing. As I listened to her view of the world, I had to rethink my … Continue reading Theory of Diversity of Human Field Pattern
Is It Time to Move from Individual to Network Consciousness? Revisiting Health as Expanding Consciousness in an Era of Social Complexity Science
Guest Contributor: Raymond R. Romano, III Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC) transformed nursing's understanding of health by reframing disease as manifestations of an evolving life pattern.1 The theory has generated decades of scholarship and insights into practice. Newman's greatest insight may have been that consciousness is revealed through pattern.2 If patterns can emerge not only … Continue reading Is It Time to Move from Individual to Network Consciousness? Revisiting Health as Expanding Consciousness in an Era of Social Complexity Science
Existing Rogerian Research Tools
Contributor: Violet Malinski, RN, PhD Compiled by the Society of Rogerian Scholars (SRS) Resource Development Committee Download the SRS Instrument Packet In an effort to facilitate research and practice informed by Martha E. Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings, the SRS Resource Development Committee obtained permissions to distribute pre-existing tools developed within the science to … Continue reading Existing Rogerian Research Tools
A reflection for early doctoral students
Contributors: Aissatou “Aysha” Gueye, DNP, MSN, RN, APN-BC, PhD Student, Connell School of Nursing, Boston CollegeKatie Kidwell, Nursing & Health Sciences Liaison Librarian, Boston College Introduction: A Conversation About Seeds and Soil This reflection emerged from a conversation between Aysha Gueye, an early PhD student, and Katie Kidwell, Nursing & Health Sciences Liaison Librarian at … Continue reading A reflection for early doctoral students
Maslow Got It Backwards
Guest Contributor: Shahnawaz Soomro At some time in our lives, the majority of us have come across Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, perhaps at a management training session, in a psychology textbook, or on a motivational poster on someone's office wall. It is a tidy, reassuring pyramid. The most fundamental physiological needs, food, drink, shelter, and … Continue reading Maslow Got It Backwards
Facing Failure: Lessons from Research on Marginalized Populations in an Unstable Political Culture
Contributor - Rachel Krogstie, MSN, RNNurse Educator | Ph.D. Student in Nursing Science According to the International Diabetes Federation, the United States has the third-highest number of adults with diabetes (International Diabetes Federation, 2025). Of these adults, an overwhelming majority are in a minority ethnic group. Mexican and Mexican American people with diabetes make up … Continue reading Facing Failure: Lessons from Research on Marginalized Populations in an Unstable Political Culture
TOUS as a TOOL: Bedside RNs Using Theory to Improve QOL for Post-Prostatectomy Patients & their Partners
Contributors: Meredith A. Ford, MSN, RN, CNEJ. Michael Leger, Ph.D., MBA, RN, CNL, NEA-BC, CNE The Theory of Unpleasant Symptoms (TOUS) focuses on understanding how patients respond to multiple symptoms of a disease process, the commonalities among these symptoms, and how interventions might be used to alleviate more than one symptom. In this interactive model, … Continue reading TOUS as a TOOL: Bedside RNs Using Theory to Improve QOL for Post-Prostatectomy Patients & their Partners
How Does Nursing Theory Fit into Nursing Education?: From the Perspective of Two Nurse Educators
Contributors: Erin Dolen, MSN-Ed, RN, CNECatherine Quay, MSN, RN-BC, CNE Last year, we conducted a study with Dr. Jane K. Dickinson as part of our doctoral program in Nursing Education at Teachers College Columbia University, that explored the use of nursing theory to guide nursing doctoral research. Our findings revealed that doctoral nursing students rarely … Continue reading How Does Nursing Theory Fit into Nursing Education?: From the Perspective of Two Nurse Educators
Is Nursing Theory Guiding Nursing Doctoral Research?
Source In March of 2022, at the Nursology Theory Conference, our research team presented a study that explored the use of theory, and specifically nursing theory, to guide nursing doctoral research. There was very little published research on this topic; therefore, a group of us decided to look into it. The topic of theory-guided research … Continue reading Is Nursing Theory Guiding Nursing Doctoral Research?
Theory-guided Research: What, Why, and How?
When I was a PhD student, I commonly heard exacerbated sighs from my fellow students regarding the trials and tribulations of "fitting" a theory into their doctoral research. Similarly, many students had trouble understanding why it was important to be theoretically guided in your research, what was the point? And how do you even "use" … Continue reading Theory-guided Research: What, Why, and How?
Recruiting participants for Nursing Research Guided by Barrett’s Theory
The Influence of Nurse Coaching on Power as Knowing Participation in Change in the Process of Health Patterning Researcher:Shirley Conrad, MSN, RN, CCRN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BCPhD CandidateChristine E. Lynn College of NursingFlorida Atlantic University Are you a NURSE who has experienced stress related to providing nursing care during the Covid-19 Pandemic? We are currently enrolling nurses … Continue reading Recruiting participants for Nursing Research Guided by Barrett’s Theory