Nursing Science Quarterly : theory, research, and practice

Includes bibliographical references.

Nursology: What's in a Name? -- Coming to Know -- Introduction to Research Issues Column -- Perceptions of Competence About Evidence-Based Practice Among Saudi Baccalaureate Nursing Students: A Cross-Sectional Survey -- Privacy: Potential Violations of Human Dignity -- Honoring Wisdom in Seeking Truth for the Moment: A Teaching-Learning Challenge -- Examining Medication Stewardship: A Nursing Perspective -- Nursing Role for Medication Stewardship Within Long-Term Care Facilities -- Paradoxes in Healthcare Leadership: Being-Nonbeing -- A Theoretical Model of Spousal Caregiving Postintensive Care -- The Effect of Watson's Care Model on Anxiety, Depression, and Stress in Turkish Women -- Special Sorrow: Terminally Ill Children's Experience of Their Parent's Distress -- Healthcare Decision-Making of African-American Patients: Comparing Positivist and Postmodern Approaches to Care -- The Art of Dying: A Global Nursing Perspective -- Leading-Following Challenges to Living Dignity -- Thoughts About the Language of Equity for Population Health -- My Stroke of Insight: A Review of Jill Bolte Taylor's TED Talk.

[Article Title: Nursology: What's in a Name? / Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, p. 93-94] Abstract: What's in a name? Peggy Chinn and Jacqueline Fawcett (https://nursology.net/), who now call themselves nursologists, created a website named nursology. The goal of the website is to change the name of the discipline of nursing. The website is impressive in décor, but the content appears as a blog where contributors continue to add any material they wish without supporting evidence for the change. Without evidence a name change lacks substance and creates confusion about a discipline whose leaders still struggle to define the meaning of nursing science. Nurse leaders worldwide still find the many degrees (PhD, DNP, DNS, DNSc, EdD, and others) granted in the United State confusing. Wouldn't it be wise for nurse leaders to focus more attention on making nursing science the hallmark of the discipline and the research and practice methodologies nursing theory-based, rather than attempting to change the name of the entity?;[Article Title: Coming to Know / Sandra Schmidt Bunkers, p.95-99] Abstract: The author in this article explores the humanbecoming paradigm postulate of illimitability as unbounded coming to know. Patterns of constructing knowledge, conversation theory, improvisation pedagogy, children's literature, the humanbecoming teaching-learning model, and personal teaching-learning experiences of the author are presented to expand awareness of the unbounded knowing of illimitability.;[Article Title: Introduction to Research Issues Column / Kristine L. Florczak, p. 100] Abstract: The following introduction discusses education related to evidence-based practice in nursing curricula.;[Article Title: Perceptions of Competence About Evidence-Based Practice Among Saudi Baccalaureate Nursing Students: A Cross-Sectional Survey / Regie B. Tumala and Abdualrahman S. Alshehri, p. 101-105] Abstract: For more than 30 years, research utilization has been described in the literature, which predated the heightened interest and demand for using best research evidence in nursing practice. Fernandez, Tran, Ramjan, Ho, and Gill identified evidence-based practice (EBP) as a methodical approach for using the best research evidence when making clinical judgments, together with patient preference and clinical experience. Furthermore, EBP was defined as the use of evidence-based knowledge in the clinical situations, and its usage should be one of the most important educational objectives in nursing education as well as one of the important skills for registered nurses worldwide. In nursing education, students must be taught to appreciate the importance of utilizing best evidence in their nursing practice, especially during their clinical time in the healthcare setting. It is hoped that if they appreciate EBP that when they become nurses, they will play an important role in the decision-making related to patient care, along with other medical and allied health professionals.;[Article Title: Privacy: Potential Violations of Human Dignity / Constance L. Milton, p. 106-107] Abstract: Privacy has been understood as a bioethical concept whose focus is on personal choosing or the right to control access to self. In nursing, privacy concerns abound where there is potential for the violation of human dignity as scientific advancements in genetic biotechnology potentially disclose personal information and genetic structures are made known to others without the consent of persons whose genetic material is being utilized for biological experimentation. In this article, the author offers new insights into the concept of privacy and human dignity as gene editing and its possible consequences unfurl within the scientific and healthcare arenas. A humanbecoming ethos perspective for nursing is illuminated.;[Article Title: Honoring Wisdom in Seeking Truth for the Moment: A Teaching-Learning Challenge / Nan Russell Yancey, p. 108-111] Abstract: In this column, the notion of honoring the wisdom of all involved in the teaching-learning endeavor in nursing is explored. Clarity of understanding wisdom and how it is known are considered in light of experiences recalled by faculty and students. Experiences of honoring wisdom in the teaching-learning journey are shared as ways of seeking truth for the moment as new knowledge and understandings emerge.;[Article Title: Examining Medication Stewardship: A Nursing Perspective / Karen Carroll, p. 112] Abstract: Stewardship equates to the care and management of resources. The outcome of focusing on goal-centered care planning from a nursing theoretical basis includes medication management and goes beyond tasks and guidelines.;[Article Title: Nursing Role for Medication Stewardship Within Long-Term Care Facilities / Taghrid Chaaban, Mathieu Ahouah, Pierre Lombrail, Jean-Manual Morvillers, Monique Rothan-Tondeur, and Karen Carroll, p. 113-115] Abstract: Elderly residents in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) constitute a population noted to have a large number of medications prescribed and administered. The aim of this article is to explore the nursing role for medication management, with an emphasis on antimicrobial stewardship, guided by disciplinary knowledge of King's theory of goal attainment and skill-based medication knowledge. The outcome is a nursing workforce truly engaged in working with interdisciplinary colleagues and focusing on care planning that includes medication management to improve the health status of residents in long-term care facilities.;[Article Title: Paradoxes in Healthcare Leadership: Being-Nonbeing / Pamela N. Clarke and Diana Berkland, p. 116-119] Abstract: The paradox of being-nonbeing is explored from the perspective of the Vice President of Nursing and Clinical Services for a large rural integrated healthcare system in the United States. Being-nonbeing for the nurse leader is experienced daily. Being-nonbeing is experienced with self and others as she provides vision, leadership, and courageous support to the workplace and care environment.;[Article Title: A Theoretical Model of Spousal Caregiving Postintensive Care / Margie E. Burns, p. 120-126] Abstract: Assuming the role of caregiver for a life partner after critical illness can be both a rewarding and challenging experience for spouses. Using a grounded theory approach, Ågård, Egerod, Tønnesen, and Lomborg developed a theoretical model describing the experience from spouse to caregiver and back. To further develop this theoretical model, a literature review was completed and nursing interventions were identified and included in the model. Testing of this theoretical model is recommended to determine its empirical adequacy.;[Article Title: The Effect of Watson's Care Model on Anxiety, Depression, and Stress in Turkish Women / Ümmühan Aktürk and Behice Erci, p. 127-134] Abstract: This study was designed to determine the effect of the care, given according to Watson's model, on depression, stress, and anxiety levels of women who underwent medical abortion. This study was conducted between 2016 and 2017 as a real test model with a pretest-posttest control group. The data were collected by the researcher in women's homes. Watson's model decreased DAS levels of the women in the experimental group after the medical abortion.;[Article Title: Special Sorrow: Terminally Ill Children's Experience of Their Parent's Distress / Martha Velasco-Whetsell and Steven L. Baumann, p. 135-139] Abstract: The authors of this paper explore the distress that terminally ill children experience when they see the suffering their illness and dying is causing their parents. The authors refer to this experience as special sorrow. The conceptual framework that guides this reflection of the terminally ill child's experience is the Roy adaptation model. The goal of this paper is to explore the concept of special sorrow as lived, so as to help nurses be with such children and their parents in a way that eases sorrow through effective adaptation and transcendence.;[Article Title: Healthcare Decision-Making of African-American Patients: Comparing Positivist and Postmodern Approaches to Care / William E. Rosa, p. 140-147] Abstract: Healthcare decision-making (HCDM) may be a potentially challenging time for any person.

When considered against the backdrop of being a minority, experiencing disparate care based on racial bias, and confronting the implications of advanced serious illness, the practices and processes of HCDM become increasingly complex. The purpose of this paper is to consider the HCDM of African-American patients with advanced serious illness through the lens of positivism and postmodernism and to make the argument that postmodern nursing is the ideal ethical and equitable approach to HCDM. Postmodernism reengages nurses to consider HCDM of African-American patients with advanced serious illness as an individualized, contextualized, whole-person process, requiring all ways of knowing. A postmodern nursing approach may promote sustainable and human-centered health interventions that will reposition an often marginalized group to the center of practice, policy, and research progress.;[Article Title: The Art of Dying: A Global Nursing Perspective / Steven L. Baumann, Dhaneesha Bahadur and Kathleen Begonia, p. 148-152] Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore how people from diverse backgrounds and places, who are severely ill, disabled, or facing death, use art to help themselves and others not only make sense of such experiences but live fully with loss and the limited time remaining. The humanbecoming paradigm is used to provide a language to talk about Western and non-Western experiences of life-threatening illness, disability and death, and art. The persons discussed in the paper suggest that age and place, although influences, are not particularly relevant, nor is severe illness, even those associated with significant failing capacities, because they cannot contain the human spirit or relationships.;[Article Title: Leading-Following Challenges to Living Dignity / Mario R. Ortiz, p. 153-156] Abstract: There are many moments when the values and beliefs of leaders are "shown" to others, especially as those in formal leadership positions are faced with opportunities and challenges. While guiding others, it is important to be grounded in dignity that places others as priority. Dignity is always present and serves as the basis for the ethos of humanbecoming: shaping the enduring tradition of honoring people and the lives they live.;[Article Title: Thoughts About the Language of Equity for Population Health / Jacqueline Fawcett, p. 157-159] Abstract: This is the first of two essays addressing equity and social justice, which are interrelated concepts of considerable interest to members of the discipline of nursing. The purpose of this essay is to define equity and related terms, including inequity, inequality, and disparities, within the context of the intersection of nursing and population health science. An essay about social justice will appear in a subsequent issue of Nursing Science Quarterly.;[Article Title: My Stroke of Insight: A Review of Jill Bolte Taylor's TED Talk / Mary R. Morrow, p. 161-162] Abstract: Jill Bolte Taylor (2006) was once a neuroanatomist at Harvard University, researching and "teaching young professionals about the human brain" (p.1).