2020 Planned Conference (Cancelled due to pandemic)

Theme: Evolution from the Scientist Nurse to Nursologist: Values and Vicissitudes

With great sadness, the 2020 conference had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic just  11 days before the conference was to have convened.  We are archiving all of the original information for the conference here, and will continue to develop ways to document and share the important material that was to have been presented in person.  Follow the links below for more information:

Friday – March 20, 2020

7:00 -8:00 – Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 – Welcome and Introductions

8:15-9:00 am – Panel Discussion: The Legacy of Rosemary Ellis and what this legacy means for the future

• Moderator, Peggy Chinn
  • Panelists: Jacqueline Fawcett, Carol Musil, Leslie Nicoll
  • This article provides the overall conference theme:Ellis, R. (1970). Values and vicissitudes of the scientist nurse. Nursing Research, 19(5), 440–445. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5200996

9:00 – 10:00 am – Plenary presentation: Is STEM and Nursing Theory an Oxymoron?

• Patricia Davidson, PhD, MEd, RN, FAAN, Professor and Dean, School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University
  • This presentation seeks to outline the role of STEM in the nursing profession and to discuss the role of theory in developing a robust epistemological basis for nursing in policy, practice, education and research.
  • For background, participants may want to read Dean Davidson’s recent editorial in JAN: Davidson, P. M. (2019). Is nursing a STEM discipline–does it matter and what can we do about it? Journal of Advanced Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14212

10:00 – 10:15 am – Break

10:15 – 11:15 am – Breakout #1: A, B, C

• Session 1A – Kendra Cotton: Peplau’s Theory in a Technology Era
  • Session 1B -Jacqueline Fawcett: Scientists who are Nurses, Nurse Scientists, and Nursologist Scientists: Values and Vicissitudes
  • Session 1C – Mats Holmberg: The EXPAND-Model: A Hermeneutical Application of a Lifeworld-led Prehospital Emergency Nursing Care

11:25 – 12:25 pm – Breakout#2: A, B, C

• Session 2A – Angelica Hernandez: Examining Nurse Caring and Readiness to Transition From the Hospital to Home
  • Session 2B – Lucinda Canty: Decolonizing Nursing: Addressing Racism and the Development of Nursing Knowledge
  • Session 2C – Christina Nyirati – It’s Time We Raised Nursologists!

12:25 – 1:30 pm – Lunch and Networking

1:30 – 2:30 pm – Breakout #3: A, B, C

• Session 3A -Dorothy Kent: “Tend and Befriend” Stress Response: Integrative Concept Development
  • Session 3B – Richard Cowling: A Call for a New Healing Holistic-Unitary Discourse
  • Session 3C – Katherine Britt: Patient Advocacy: Engaging families with Parse’s Theory of Human Becoming at End-of-Life

2:40 – 3:40 pm- Breakout #4: A, B, C

• Session 4A – Cheryl Forchuk: Peplau’s Theory Extended to Transitional Relationship Model to Bridge Discharge
  • Session 4B – Brandon Blaine Brown: Nursing for the Chthulucene: Rhizomatic Thought, Just Episteme, Liberatory Pedagogy, Emancipatory Nursing
  • Session 4C – Megan Foradori: Development of a Theoretical Model of Early Intervention Initiation

3:45 – 5:00 pm – Society and Interest Group meetings

Saturday – March 21, 2020

7:00 – 8:00 – Continental breakfast

8:00 – 9:00 am – Breakout #5: A, B, C

• Session 5A – Anna Boneberg: Inaugural Presentation of The Theory for Nursing Education
  • Session 5B – Rita Amoah: Concept Analysis—Ubiety (Caring for One Patient at a Time Amidst Distractions)
  • Session 5C – Margaret Erickson: The Client’s Worldview: The Primary Evidential Resource in Nursing Practice

9:10 – 10:10 am – Breakout #6: A, B, C

• Session 6A – Edward Halloran: The Yale School: Nursing Research and Theory Under Wald [1957-1966]
  • Session 6B – Da’Lynn Clayton: Making Physical Exams Fun: A Clinic Reimagined through Modeling and Role-Modeling Theory
  • Session 6C – Phyllis Hansell: Nursing Theories are Alive and Well in Practice

10:10 – 10:30 am – Break and Networking

10:30 – 11:30 am – Breakout #7: A, B, C

• Session 7A – Dorothy Dunn: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives of Compassion Energy
  • Session 7B – Patricia Arias: Perspectives from Colómbia on Nursing Theory Education: Science of Unitary Human Beings
  • Session 7C – Clémence Dallaire: Teaching Theoretical Content at the Undergraduate Level: Major Challenge Over Two Decades

11:40 – 12:40 am – Breakout #8: A, B

• Session 8A – Elizabeth Johnson: Therapeutic Misconception and Nursing’s Role Enhancing Informed Clinical Trial Participation Using Theory
  • Session 8B – Susan Bartos: A Complex World, Forced into Simplicity

12:45 – 3:00 pm – Lunch and closing panel discussion focusing on directions for the future (organized by members of the Nursology Theory Collective)

3:00 – 3:30 pm – Closing, Wrap-up, and Welcome to Memphis 2021!