Includes bibliographical references.

What Makes a Manuscript Worthy of Publication? -- A Group Concept Inventing of Hiding -- Meta-Aggregation: Just What Is It? -- Ethics and the Reporting of Research Findings -- Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing for Teaching-Learning: But Is It Really Nursing? -- Bringing Joy-Sorrow to Light: Informing Practice Utilizing Theoretical and Research Perspectives -- Envisioning a Virtual Future for Nursing -- Nursing Theory in Virtual Care -- Healing Pattern: A Natural Kind in Nursing? -- Philosophical Theories of Truth and Nursing: Exploring the Tensions -- A Proposed Islamic Nursing Conceptual Framework -- Conceptual Foreknowings: Integrative Review of Feeling Overwhelmed -- A Comparison of Two Case Studies Using the Roy Adaptation Model: Parents of Opioid-Dependent Adults and Bariatric Surgery -- Lost in Translation: The Promise and Problems of the Globalization of Research -- Transitional Care: Nursing Knowledge and Policy Implications -- Still More Thoughts About Conceptual Models and Literature Reviews: Focus on Health Policy -- Connecting Research Findings and Practice: Evidence-Based Practice? -- EBP Books: Patient Preferences and Theoretical Underpinnings?.

[Article Title: What Makes a Manuscript Worthy of Publication? / Rosemarie Rizzo Parse]

Abstract: In a recent discussion at a conference in Europe with nurse scholars from a variety of countries, questions were raised regarding publication in refereed English-language nursing journals. The importance of publishing in these journals is growing worldwide. One major question raised was, what makes a manuscript worth publishing? Clearly, there are a number of ingredients that must be present to render a manuscript worthy of publication in any refereed nursing journal. The manuscript must be about something of importance and concern to the discipline and the profession of nursing. The discipline of nursing consists of the knowledge base as articulated in the three paradigmatic perspectives about human, universe, and health (totality, simultaneity, and humanbecoming). The profession of nursing consists of the body of nurses educated according to nationally or internationally prescribed, regulated, and monitored standards created to protect the integrity of healthcare to humankind.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807930

[Article Title: A Group Concept Inventing of Hiding / Sandra Schmidt Bunkers, Deborah Letcher, Judy Busman, Gloria Damgaard, Elizabeth Flinn, Kathy Knitig, Robin PetersonLund, and Linda Young, p. 8-10]

Abstract: Parse’s humanbecoming concept inventing model provided a unique method to conduct a group concept inventing of the humanuniverse living experience of hiding. Several insights related to conducting a group concept inventing project are identified along with an ingenuous proclamation for hiding.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807928

[Article Title: Meta-Aggregation: Just What Is It? / Kristine L. Florczak, p. 11-22]

Abstract: Evidence abounds in the scientific arena of any discipline, and in order to make use of the information, evidence must be appraised and synthesized. The process of creating a systematic review by identifying, appraising, and synthesizing relevant studies is one way of organizing evidence. Such a process may be used for quantitative as well as qualitative research findings. Meta-analysis is used exclusively in quantitative research to pool data through statistical procedures in order to improve the power of a study. Meta-synthesis is used in qualitative research to synthesize findings such as themes found across many different studies. It appears that meta-synthesis may occur from the perspective of a particular methodology, but when it crosses different methodologies, it is termed meta-aggregation. According to Tufanaru (2015), meta-aggregation is a process that identifies meanings from qualitative studies that may be from different methodologies and further abstracts those meanings into categories that are then synthesized. This process is not linear but iterative and interpretive, producing statements that are useful for action. In other words, being useful for action implies that the statements can be useful for evidence-based practice.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807933

[Article Title: Ethics and the Reporting of Research Findings / Constance L. Milton, p.23]

Abstract: Ethics in research, writing, and publication are critical for the healthcare disciplines. Findings from various formal inquiry studies are vital for the dissemination of new knowledge and possible implications for future research, practice, and education. All scholars of the discipline of nursing have an important responsibility to be careful stewards and rigorous evaluators of research from budding scholars. This article begins a discussion of potential straight-thinking implications for mentorship and ethical straight-thinking conduct required in nurse research.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807934

[Article Title: Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing for Teaching-Learning: But Is It Really Nursing? / Nan Russell Yancey, p. 25-28]

Abstract: Although nurses across generations have called for nursing practice to be informed by the best evidence available in the moment, evidence-based practice has gained prominence across healthcare since release of the 2001 Institute of Medicine’s report Crossing the Quality Chasm. Recent nursing literature is replete with calls for evidence-based practice to be the foundation for nursing practice and incorporated in nursing education across levels. However, it is essential to clarify what is evidence-based practice in nursing in order to address concerns for what should be the evidence for nursing practice and teaching-learning in nursing. In exploring the questions “Is it evidence?” and “Is it nursing?” recommendations and challenges are provided to nurse leaders in administration and education for assuring appropriate evidence is used to guide the teaching-learning and practice of nursing.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807929

[Article Title: Bringing Joy-Sorrow to Light: Informing Practice Utilizing Theoretical and Research Perspectives / Karen Carroll, p. 29-32]

Abstract: This article focuses on the substance of centering on a nursing disciplinary theoretical approach accomplished through a brief review of the phenomena of joy-sorrow from a research and practice perspective. When practice is designed from a theoretical conceptual system, it takes form and provides tangible benefits through the creative conceptualizations and connectedness that arise to influence persons who seek healthcare. Although the article espouses a humanbecoming framework, the take-away is that a nursing disciplinary approach promotes congruence among theory, research, practice, and education, thereby advancing the discipline’s meaning and contributions.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807941

[Article Title: Envisioning a Virtual Future for Nursing / Pamela N. Clarke, p. 33-34]

Abstract: The theme for this column is nursing theory in a virtual world. The timing is right, as the American Nurses’ Association (ANA, 2018) is in the process of getting public comment on new Core Principles of Connected Health (an update of the 1999 Core Principles on Telehealth). The draft documents refer to protection for clients, providing a foundation for healthcare professionals, and provide a basis for review of connected health guidelines by professions.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418808349

[Article Title: Nursing Theory in Virtual Care / Ann E. Fronczek, p. 35-38]

Abstract: Individuals are increasingly seeking care in virtual care environments as the healthcare system evolves. Nurses are well poised to enhance their scope of practice into these environments that can transcend time, space, and location. The author discusses both how virtual care environments are seen in today’s healthcare systems and how nursing theory and research will contribute to enhancing quality care for individuals in virtual care environments.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807926

[Article Title: Healing Pattern: A Natural Kind in Nursing? / Pamela G. Reed, p. 39-42]

Abstract: This article focuses on the philosophical notion of natural kind to explore healing pattern as a relevant and natural process in nursing science and practice. A goal in doing this is to facilitate continued empirical investigation of and evidence for nursing’s ontological claim about the existence of a healing pattern. I review various accounts of natural kind, with applications to nursing and the healing pattern. I conclude with directions for future inquiry to provide more definitive evidence and explanation of the healing pattern.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807937

[Article Title: Philosophical Theories of Truth and Nursing: Exploring the Tensions / Deborah S. Thoun, Megan Kirk, Esther Sangster-Gormley, and James O. Young, p. 43-48]

Abstract: In this paper, the authors explore three philosophical theories of truth and offer a critique of this foundational area of scholarship for nursing. A brief summary of key ideas related to the three substantial philosophical theories of truth—that is, correspondence, pragmatism, and coherence—serves to highlight various convictions and commitments that facilitate or discourage the growth of nursing knowledge in particular ways. The authors conclude that the coherence theory of truth offers a more inclusive view of truth and best captures and supports the diversity that exists within nursing knowledge and the regulative ideal to which nursing aspires.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807945

[Article Title: A Proposed Islamic Nursing Conceptual Framework / Akram Sadat Sadat Hoseini, p. 49-53]

Abstract: The proposed conceptual framework was developed specifically for nursing within the context of Islamic culture. Each of the four multidimensional concepts of the conceptual framework—humans, health, environment, and nursing—clearly reflects Islam. The dimensions of humans are body, spirit, nature, instinct, and Fetrat. The dimensions of health are wellness, disease, intellectual health, transcendence, and Qalbe Salim. The dimensions of environment are natural and social. The concept, nursing, is regarded as a science and an art. The goal of nursing is to seek solutions to problems.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807944

[Article Title: Conceptual Foreknowings: Integrative Review of Feeling Overwhelmed / Edwin-Nikko R. Kabigting, p. 54-60]

Abstract: Feeling overwhelmed is a universal humanuniverse living experience of living quality. From the humanbecoming perspective, all individuals choose to feel overwhelmed or not as they make choices moment to moment. Thus, it is of importance to understand feeling overwhelmed from divergent perspectives. To achieve this, the author in this article reviews the extant literature on feeling overwhelmed from the disciplines of nursing, business, psychology, philosophy, theology, social work, education, and sociology. Three themes that emerged from the extant literature were (a) feeling overwhelmed arises as an engulfing turbulence, (b) feeling overwhelmed surfaces with disquiet isolation, and (c) feeling overwhelmed emerges with reaching for relief.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807931

[Article Title: A Comparison of Two Case Studies Using the Roy Adaptation Model: Parents of Opioid-Dependent Adults and Bariatric Surgery / Sandra Russo, Steven L. Baumann, Martha Velasco-Whetsell, and Callista Roy, p. 61-67]

Abstract: The authors in this paper demonstrate the utility and versatility of the Roy Adaptation Model (RAM) as applied to two contemporary case studies. The first case uses the RAM model to gain understanding and guide nursing practice to assist the parents of a young adult with an opioid use disorder and depression, and the second case involves using the RAM model to help a woman who recently had bariatric surgery cope and adapt postoperatively in a way that helps her maximize the benefits of having had that procedure. The authors discuss how the RAM provides a holistic approach that can be used to provide high-quality, comprehensive nursing.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807943

[Article Title: Lost in Translation: The Promise and Problems of the Globalization of Research / Steven L. Baumann, p. 68-72]

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to consider the promise and problems of the globalization of research for nurses and other healthcare professionals. Over the past decade, there has been an impressive increase in research activity in many regions of the world, such as in several of the Asian countries. This increasing capacity to conduct research and create innovations has great promise for shared health, prosperity, and well-being, but it also has some significant problems and limitations that are often not reported. One area of research that has drawn considerable international research attention is aging and longevity. In the United States, there is much to learn from the work of international colleagues in terms of clinical application; it is unclear how generalizable the findings are or, in other words, what may be lost in translation.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807927

[Article Title: Transitional Care: Nursing Knowledge and Policy Implications / Mario R. Ortiz, p. 73-77]

Abstract: It is important to develop and implement policies that are unique to nursing practice situations. To do so, nurses must participate in policy development that connects disciplinary knowledge with policy formulation. The purpose of this paper is to explore connections between nursing knowledge and transitional care. This is done with a discussion of transitional care definitions and models, along with connections to concepts and principles within extant nursing theories and models.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807938

[Article Title: Still More Thoughts About Conceptual Models and Literature Reviews: Focus on Health Policy / Jacqueline Fawcett, Julie Cronin, Barbara Cuccovia, and Katherine Valorie, p. 78-81]

Abstract: This essay is the second of two essays about the use of a conceptual model to guide scoping reviews of literature. The first essay, published in the previous issue of Nursing Science Quarterly, provided examples of the use of the conceptual model of nursing and population health as a starting point for the construction of conceptual-theoretical-empirical structures for scoping reviews. In this essay, the examples are of the use of the conceptual model of nursing and health policy.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807946

[Article Title: Connecting Research Findings and Practice: Evidence-Based Practice? / Mary R. Morrow, p. 82]

Abstract: In searching for books or media to review for this volume’s theme, concepts from research findings, I settled on two books. While some might wonder how my choices connect with the theme, others who know me know I enjoy finding connections and often find connections where others do not. For instance, in considering concepts from research findings, I immediately considered how many in healthcare are concerned with the length of time it takes for research findings to become common practice (Harvey & Kitson, 2015; Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015). Certainly, the evidence-based practice (EBP) worldview (including nurses) has created a variety of EBP models (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2015) to help healthcare practitioners understand how to bring research to the forefront of healthcare for the betterment of quality and safety. Anyone who has tried to change practice or behaviors knows that writing a policy or critically appraising research as solid research does not change behavior. In addition, I recently heard Bernadette Melnyk and her colleague Lyn Gallagher-Ford speak at a nursing leadership research conference. Melnyk (2018) noted that truly if one wanted to bring research findings to the forefront of practice sooner rather than later, one would need to involve the whole organization in a culture change. It is her (Melnyk, 2018) contention that although many of the EBP models in healthcare literature are process models, there are two that address organizational culture: The Advancing Research and Clinical Practice Through Close Collaboration Model (ARCC©) (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2002) and The Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) (Kitson, Harvey, & McCormack, 1998; Rycroft-Malone et al., 2002) framework. Her comments peaked my interest, and in the interest of implementing research findings in practice sooner, I searched for books that reviewed ARCC© and PARIHS. I decided to review both Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt’s (2015) e-text Evidenced-Based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare: A Guide to Best Practice (3rd ed.) and Harvey and Kitson’s (2015) book on the revised PARIHS framework, Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare: A Facilitation Guide.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807940

[Article Title: EBP Books: Patient Preferences and Theoretical Underpinnings? / Mary R. Morrow, p. 83-85]

Abstract: In reviewing these two evidence-based practice (EBP) books, it is important to note that they are very different. Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt’s (2015) book is a comprehensive text for nursing and healthcare on EBP. They explain what EBP is, the seven steps of EBP, and how to critically appraise evidence. While they do discuss their own EBP work, The Evidenced-Based Advancing Research and Clinical Practice Through Close Collaboration (ARCC©) (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2002) model, they also cover other EBP models as well. Harvey and Kitson’s (2015) book, on the other hand, is a book on the revision of their original PARIHS (Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services) (Kitson, Harvey, & McCormack, 1998; Rycroft-Malone et al., 2002) EBP framework and how to implement it.

https://doi.org/10.1177/0894318418807942