Nursing Science Quarterly (NURS SCI QUART)

Publications in this journal

• Article: Toward understanding and measuring adaptation level in the context of the Roy adaptation model.

  Susan DeSanto-Madeya, Jacqueline Fawcett
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  ABSTRACT: The Roy adaptation model concepts of stimuli, coping mechanisms, and modes of adaptation have been translated into several middle-range concepts and measured using existing and new instruments. The concept of adaptation level, however, has rarely been used in Roy adaptation model-based research. This paper presents a description of how the Roy adaptation model concept of adaptation level was translated into the logically congruent middle-range theory concept of adjustment. A single-item instrument, the Adjustment Scale, is identified as one way to measure adjustment.
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):355-9.
• Article: Envisioning the possibles: living the art of humanbecoming with the leading-following model in practice.

  Paula M Karnick
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):332.
• Article: Leadership and ethics in nurse-nurse relationships.

  Marisa Elise Woods
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):383.
• Article: Fostering the creative spirit in teaching-learning.

  Sandra Schmidt Bunkers
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  ABSTRACT: This author describes creativity and the development of several curriculum projects fostering the creative spirit in the nursing academy as well as in other health sciences. It introduces Dr. Barbara Condon's column describing the use of artistic expression, framed by the humanbecoming school of thought, in a senior level nursing course at Briar Cliff University.
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):323-5.
• Article: The humanbecoming leading-following model in practice.

  Thomas J Doucet, Françoise Maillard-Strüby
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  ABSTRACT: The purpose of this column is to illustrate how the humanbecoming leading-following model was lived by nurses practicing within hospital, community, and school settings. The authors describe practice scenarios to show ways that nurses guided by the humanbecoming theory lived the processes and the key ideas of the model. One example addresses a change of policy, as the nurse lived the humanbecoming beliefs and values in leading-following. This column is nursing theory-guided evidence-based practice.
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):333-8.
• Article: Metaphor: creative energy informing nursing research.

  Violet M Malinski
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):310-1.
• Article: Expressiveness and creativeness: metaphorical images of nursing.

  Leighsa Sharoff
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  ABSTRACT: Metaphors are a personal expression and form of self-awareness, providing a way of describing an experience with dissimilar concepts to convey meaning. Metaphors create new meaning and provide a deeper insight into the human spirit. They are grounded in reality and day-to-day life experiences. Reflective practitioners incorporate and integrate their vast knowledge base of experience, skills, and attitudes to assist in formulating their practice as a metaphor. It is through this experience and reflection that nurses can creatively express their images of self and nursing.
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):312-7.
• Article: What a difference a word makes.

  Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):301.
• Article: The humanbecoming family model.

  Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
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  ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to set forth the humanbecoming family model as an alternative view of family. The essences, paradoxes, and processes offer a unique way of envisioning family.
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):305-9.
• Article: Artistic expression in teaching-learning.

  Barbara Backer Condon
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  ABSTRACT: The use of art to enhance teaching-learning in nursing has proven beneficial in the past. While there are variety of methods to utilize art in education that exist, the author discusses artistic expression, as described by the humanbecoming school of thought, being used for the first time during the final term of the senior year for nursing students. This artistic expression was part of a variety of assignments connected to the students' preceptor experiences. The author in this column demonstrates a profound coming to know and personal enlightenment through a reflective process that accentuates the importance of not only allowing, but encouraging creativity throughout a nursing curriculum.
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):326-31.
• Article: Participatory dreaming: a conceptual exploration from a unitary appreciative inquiry perspective.

  Elizabeth J Repede
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  ABSTRACT: Dreaming is a universal phenomenon in human experience and one that carries multiple meanings in the narrative discourse across disciplines. Dreams can be collective, communal, and emancipatory, as well as individual. While individual dreaming has been extensively studied in the literature, the participatory nature of dreaming as a unitary phenomenon is limited. The concept of participatory dreaming within a unitary appreciative framework for healing is explored from perspectives in anthropology, psychology, and nursing. A participatory model of dreaming is proposed from a synthesis of the literature for use in future research using unitary appreciative inquiry.
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):360-8.
• Article: Common metaphors in nursing ethics.

  Constance L Milton
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  ABSTRACT: Metaphors are literary comparisons that are used to create new meaning and insight for concepts, ideas, and situations found in a discipline. This author describes some common moral metaphors used in the discipline of nursing and specifically in situations of nursing ethics. New insights and questions for common usage are offered for the metaphors from a nursing theoretical perspective. Implications for nursing as a discipline are incorporated and discussion points for the future practice of nursing are illuminated.
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):318-22.
• Article: Improving the profession of nursing in Slovenia.

  Steven L Baumann
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  ABSTRACT: The importance of increasing the educational attainment of professional nurses in Slovenia is discussed. It is suggested that with the global economic recession it is more, not less, important that professional nurses are competent and independent practitioners.
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):369-70.
• Article: Feeling fear: a humanbecoming study of older adults.

  Steven L Baumann
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  ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to enhance understanding of the lived experience of feeling fear. Parse's phenomenological-hermeneutic method was used to answer the research question: What is the structure of the lived experience of feeling fear? Ten older adults living in or near New York City participated in the study. Data were collected through dialogical engagement and analyzed through the extraction-synthesis processes. Core concepts were identified and discussed. The structure, feeling fear is haunting possibilities with cautious perseverance arising with reassuring affiliations amid defiance, is the central finding of this study. This finding was connected to the humanbecoming theory and extant literature, contributing to nursing knowledge, expanding the theory, and enhancing of understanding about feeling fear with older adults.
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):346-54.
• Article: To defile by assuming to know.

  Kristine L Florczak
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):375-6.
• Article: Theorizing family: a uniquely nursing perspective.

  F Beryl Pilkington
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):304.
• Article: From theory to practice: caring science according to Watson and Brewer.

  Pamela N Clarke, Jean Watson, Barbara B Brewer
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  ABSTRACT: Caring science is presented by Jean Watson and Barbara Brewer through an interview and dialogue format. Jean Watson presents caring science and its philosophy and evolution and the impact of her model on nursing and other disciplines. Barbara Brewer addresses the implementation of the model in a Magnet hospital setting and describes how her leadership facilitated implementation.
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):339-45.
• Article: Caring for older adults: the parables in Confucian texts.

  Jong-Ni Lin
  Nursing Science Quarterly 10/2009; 22(4):381-2.
• Article: The Roy adaptation model and research.

  Callista Roy, Martha V Whetsell, Keville Frederickson
  Nursing Science Quarterly 08/2009; 22(3):209-11.