Nursology

06/30/2022

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05/12/2019

Today, we also celebrate Florence Nightingale's birthday! She is considered the founder of modern nursing for her devotion to compassionate care, the pioneering use of statistics, and the improvement of sanitary practices in healthcare.

04/08/2019

The problem with the 5-10 year “rule” for citations. By Dr. Peggy Chinn.

Recently I have encountered more and more students who tell me that their advisors are indicating that all of their citations be within the past 10 years – preferably the past 5. This is one of many damaging myths about scholarship and writing that I encounter (the other most common is to never use personal pronouns – wrong – see “Finding Your Voice“). I am not sure where the notion comes from that citations must be limited to only the most recent, but in nursing in particular, this is especially damaging to the development of our discipline. Of course as scholars we all want to know that an author has thoroughly investigated the very latest writings related to their topic, and the fact is that by the time a work is published in a journal or book, any literature cited is already fading into the distant past. So of course currency is vital, but today becomes yesterday very fast!

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Recently I have encountered more and more students who tell me that their advisors are indicating that all of their citations be within the past 10 years – preferably the past 5. This is one…

04/08/2019

Reflections on the 6th National Nursing Ethics Conference. By Dr. Darcy Copeland.

Ethics of Caring ®– the 6th National Nursing Ethics Conference was held at the University of California, Los Angeles March 21-22. The theme of this year’s conference was Vulnerability and Presence: An invitation to explore the intersection of vulnerability and the power of presence. The two days were packed with keynote, plenary, breakout sessions and case discussions.

Joan Liaschenko delivered the opening keynote session: “The Moral Work of Nursing, Vulnerability, and Moral Community.” The moral work of nursing involves acting for patients, helping patients have a life, and advocacy and relationship with others is the vehicle for nursing, our instrument. Attendees were challenged to transform our work environments into moral communities. We are all vulnerable to the actions of others. Nursing has a very important role in healthcare and we must hold others accountable to take our concerns seriously because our part is just as important as any other.

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by Guest Blogger Darcy Copeland See Conference details page Ethics of Caring ®– the 6th National Nursing Ethics Conference was held at the University of California, Los Angeles March 21-22. The th…

04/08/2019

Reflections on Case Western Reserve “Nursing Theory: A 50 Year Perspective Past and Future.” By Dr. Peggy Chinn.

On March 21-22, 2019, about 120 nurse scholars gathered in Cleveland, Ohio to celebrate 50 years since the earliest nursing theory conferences were held at Case Western Reserve and the University of Colorado. (see 1967, 1968 and 1969 details). I believe this vibrant conference will be recognized as another landmark event in the history of nursing, a time when we renewed our appreciation of our core nursology ideas, ideals, mission and purposes, a time when we envisioned new possibilities, and a time when we launched significant initiatives to bring our values into action. The many doctoral students who attended, and who presented their work, speak to the significance of this event for the future.

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Download conference program Download Chinn keynote Go to photos Go to videos Go to conference information On March 21-22, 2019, about 120 nurse scholars gathered in Cleveland, Ohio to celebrate 50 …

03/31/2019

Bridging the Gap from Theory to Practice for New Nurses

Last year more than 230,000 registered nurses passed the NCLEX exam and became ready to practice. AORN believes perioperative nurse residency programs can attract this wealth of new nurses to perioperative care and give them the tools to hit the ground running with a formal transition to perioperative practice.

Only a handful of perioperative nurse residency programs are up and running across the United States. Nursing professor Georgia Dinndorf-Hogenson, PhD, RN, CNOR, chair of AORN’s National Committee on Education, has led an initiative to shape AORN’s first ever position statement on perioperative nurse residency programs.

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) is the leader in advocating for excellence in perioperative practice and healthcare.

03/29/2019

Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects.

03/28/2019

Dr. Patrick Palmieri visited with Bolivian nursing students caring for the children, and their families, from all over Bolivia during Operacion Sonrisa Bolivia (Operation Smile). During the visit, Dr. Palmieri demonstrated the functionality of nursology.net as well as how to use the translation function to shift the content from English into Spanish.

During the week, dentists, nurses, physicians, psychologists, speech therapists, and many other volunteers from Italy, Paraguay, Russia, Sweden, Canada, and the United States joined their Bolivian colleagues in the remarkable work of surgically repairing the cleft lips and/or palates of 140 children. This was a remarkable week, to terminate the year of preparation, where we actively demonstrates our human caring kindness as health care professions.

03/27/2019

After reading too many papers that either are not reproducible or contain statistical errors (or both), the American Statistical Association (ASA) has been roused to action. Today the group release…

03/25/2019

Three years ago, the American Statistical Association (ASA) expressed hope that the world would move to a “post-p-value era.” The statement in which they made that recommendation has been cited mor…

03/24/2019

The Francis Bolton School of Nursing at the Case Western Reserve University and the Theory-Guided Expert Panel at the American Academy of Nursing cosponsored the meeting “Nursing theory a 50 year perspective past and future.” At the meeting, a variety of topics specific to nursing theory were presented, discussed, and often debated. In particular, the growing number of nursing curriculums not grounded in nursing theory was of particular interest to the scholars. Another mportant area of discussion focused on the use of nursology for the study of nursing and nursologist for the scholars. Overall, this was an outstanding meeting.