2021 Virtual Nursing Theory Week March 17 – 24

All times shown are U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Wed, Mar 17, 2021 10:00 am – 3:30 PM EDT- Keynote Address and Panel

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT

Welcome and Overview of the week – Leslie Nicoll and planning team members

Keynote Address: Is STEM and Nursing Theory an Oxymoron?

Panel Discussion: The Legacy of Rosemary Ellis and what this legacy means for the future

12:30 – 2:00 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 12:30 – 1:00 PM EDT – Barbara Dossey – Nightingale’s Legacy, Theory of Integral Nursing, and Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
    • 1:00 – 1:30 PM EDT – Maria O’Rourke – Professional Role Identity Formation Theory: Explicating Professional Role Clarity & Nurse Engagement
    • 1:30 – 2:00 PM EDT – Benjamin Galatzan – A Theoretical Framework to Guide Nurse-to-Nurse Change of Shift Communication
2:00 – 2:15 PM EDT – Break
2:15 – 3:45 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 2:15 – 2:45 PM EDT – Marian Turkel – Medical Knowledge Versus Discipline Specific Nursing Knowledge Grounded in Nursing Theory
    • 2:45- 3:15 PM EDT – Clémence Dallaire – Teaching Theoretical Content at the Undergraduate Level: Major Challenge Over Two Decades
    • 3:15 – 3:45 PM EDT – Margaret Erickson – Accessing Self-Care Knowledge and Utilizing Nursology to Facilitate Reflective Practice
3:45 – 4:00 PM EDT – Break
4:00 – 5:30 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 4:00 – 4:30 PM EDT – Savina Schoenhofer – Nursing As Caring Theory: One Pathway to Expanding Nursing’s Unique Disciplinary Knowledge
    • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT – Mary Ellen Wright – Nursing as Caring in Complex Situations Framed by Ecological Systems Theory
    • 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM EDT – Jerrol Wallace – Development of an Epistemogical View of Stigma in the Chronic Pain Population
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM – Daily Discussion

Thu, Mar 18, 2021 8:15 AM – 7:15 PM EDT

8:15 – 9:45 AM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 8:15 – 8:45 AM EDT – Mats Holmberg – The EXPAND-Model: A Hermeneutical Application of a Lifeworld-led Prehospital Emergency Nursing Care
  • 8:45 – 9:15 AM EDT – Dorothy Dunn – Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives of Compassion Energy
  • 9:15 – 9:45 AM EDT – Marie-Soleil Hardy – An Effective Nursing Interventions Program: Responding to Patient Needs and Nursing Values
9:45 – 10:00 AM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 10:00 – 10:30 AM EDT – Lucinda Canty and Peggy Chinn – Decolonizing Nursing: Addressing Racism and the Development of Nursing Knowledge
  • 10:30 – 11:00 AM EDT – Eunji Cho – A Nurse-Adolescent with Cancer Dyadic Storytelling Intervention to Promote Human Flourishing
  • 11:00 – 11:30 AM EDT – Judith Hertz – Perceived Enactment of Autonomy: Exemplar of Modeling & Role-Modeling Theory Expansion
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT – Break
12:00 – 1:30 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 12:00 – 12:30 PM EDT – Nicholas Zumwalt – Parent Knowledge of Suffering in Their Non-Verbal Child with Special Needs
  • 12:30 – 1:00 PM EDT – Karen Sousa – Teaching and Artistry in PhD Education
  • 1:00 – 1:30 PM EDT – Diane White – Creating a Culture of Care in Nursing Education
1:30 – 1:45 PM EDT – Break
1:45 – 3:15 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 1:45 – 2:15 PM EDT – Mike Taylor – The Questionable Assumptions of Science and the Next 50 Years of Nursology
  • 2:15 – 2:45 PM EDT – Phyllis Hansell – Nursing Theories are Alive and Well in Practice
  • 2:45 – 3:15 PM EDT – Edward Halloran – The Yale School: Nursing Research and Theory Under Wald [1957-1966]
3:15 – 3:30 PM EDT – Break
3:30 – 5:00 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 3:30 – 4:00 PM EDT – Susan Matney – Introducing the Theory of Wisdom-in-Action for Clinical Nursing
  • 4:00 – 4:30 PM EDT – Rita Amoah – Concept Analysis—Ubiety (Caring for One Patient at a Time Amidst Distractions)
  • 4:30 – 5:00 PM EDT – Ashley Ruiz – The Othering Dynamics Within Hegemonic Masculinities: Guided by Intersectionality Theory
5:00 – 5:15 PM EDT – Break
5:15 – 6:15 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 5:15 – 5:45 PM EDT – Dorothy Kent – Military to College: Situation-Specific Application of Meleis’ Transitions Theory
  • 5:45 – 6:15 PM EDT – Catherine Green – Nursing and Philosophy: A Natural Fit?
6:15 – 7:15 PM EDT – Daily Discussion

Fri, Mar 19, 2021 12 12:00 – 6:00 PM EDT

12:00 – 1:30 EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 12:00 – 12:30 PM EDT – Anna Boneberg – Inaugural Presentation of The Theory for Nursing Education
  • 12:30 – 1:00 PM EDT – Jacqueline Fawcett – Scientists who are Nursologists: Theoretical Contributions to the Discipline Based on Discipline of Research Doctoral Degree. 
  • 1:00 – 1:30 PM EDT – Jalma Marcus – Nursing the Organization Space that Surrounds™: An Holistic, Innovative Reenvisioning and Expansion of the Energetic Focus of Patient Care.
1:30 – 1:45 PM EDT – Break
1:45 – 3:15 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 1:45 – 2:15 PM EDT – Beverly Whelton – Domain of Nursology is Only One facet of Nursing: A Philosophical Analysis
  • 2:15 – 2:45 PM EDT – Marlaine Smith – A Critical Reflection on Ellis’ “Values and Vicissitudes of the Scientist Nurse”.
  • 2:45 – 3:15 PM EDT – TBA
3:15 – 3:30 – Break
1:45 – 3:15 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 3:30 – 4:00 PM EDT – Amélia Didier – “Seeking Aufgehobenheit” a Patients’ Grounded Theory for Holistic Nursing Practice and Healthcare
  • 4:00 – 4:30 PM EDT – Elizabeth Johnson – Therapeutic Misconception and Nursing’s Role Enhancing Informed Clinical Trial Participation Using Theory
  • 4:30 – 5:00 PM EDT – Chloe Littzen – Nursing Theorizing as a Sociopolitical Endeavor
5:00 – 6:00 PM EDT – Daily Discussion

Sat, Mar 20, 2021 8:15 AM – 12:30 PM EDT

8:15 – 9:45 AM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 8:15 – 8:45 AM EDT – Maya Zumstein-Shaha – Practice Leading Theory Development: The Nursological Theory of the Omnipresence of Cancer 
  • 8:45 – 9:15 AM EDT – TBA
  • 9:15 – 9:45 AM EDT – Carolyn Murrock – The Theory of Music, Mood, and Movement to Improve Health Outcomes Globally
9:45 – 10:00 AM EDT – Break
10:00 – 11:30 AM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 10:00 – 10:30 AM EDT – Daniel Suarez Baquero – Art of Caring in Nursing: A Concept That Goes Beyond Languages
  • 10:30 – 11:00 AM EDT – Helen Erickson – The Client’s Worldview: The Primary Evidential Resource in Nursing Practice
  • 11:00 – 11:30 AM EDT – Vanessa Shields-Haas – Nursing with the People: Imaging Postcapitalist Nursing
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM EDT – Daily Discussion

Sun, Mar 21, 2021 1:45 PM – 6:00 PM EDT

1:45 – 3:15 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 1:45 – 2:15 PM EDT – Carrie Langley – Informing Local Public Health Policy: Applying the Prismatic Midparadigm of Nursing
  • 2:15 – 2:45 PM EDT – Kendra Cotton – Peplau’s Theory in a Technology Era
  • 2:45 – 3:15 PM EDT – Brandon Blaine Brown – Unlearning in the COVIDcene: Bodies Reborn and The Moral Imperative for Composting 
3:15 – 3:30 PM EDT – Break
3:30 – 5:00 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 3:30 – 4:00 PM EDT – Da’Lynn Clayton – Making Physical Exams Fun: A Clinic Reimagined through Modeling and Role-Modeling Theory
  • 4:00 – 4:30 PM EDT – Christina Nyirati – It’s Time We Raised Nursologists!
  • 4:30 – 5:00 PM EDT – Yuanyuan Jin – Development of a Nursing Theory Guided Culturally-Tailored Heart Failure Self-Management Intervention
5:00 – 6:00 PM EDT – Daily Discussion

Mon, Mar 22, 2021 8:15 AM – 5:30 PM EDT

8:15 – 9:45 AM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 8:15 – 8:45 AM EDT – TBA
  • 8:45 – 9:15 AM EDT – TBA
  • 9:15 – 9:45 AM EDT – Maryjo Prince-Paul  – Using the COMFORT Model to Guide Communication about Medical Aid in Dying
9:45 – 10:00 AM EDT- Break
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT – Keynote Panel

Featuring Nursology Theory Collective participants. Topic: The Focus of the Discipline: Past, Present, and Future

12:00 – 12:30 PM EDT – Break
12:30 – 2:00 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 12:30 – 1:00 PM EDT – Mary Bridgid Martin – Nursing Theory: A Basis for Instrument Development Using Tappen’s Concept Tree Approach
  • 1:00 – 1:30 PM EDT – Amy Moore – Theory-based Independent Private Practice of Nursing with Clients
  • 1:30 – 2:00 PM EDT – Karen Gehrling – Building on our Legacy: Issues of Knowledge Transfer
2:00 – 2:15 PM EDT – Break
2:15 – 3:45 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 2:15 – 2:45 PM EDT – Raeann LeBlanc – Neoliberal Influences on Nursing Knowledge Development: A Case Discourse Analysis
  • 2:45 – 3:15 PM EDT – Angelica Hernandez – Examining Nurse Caring and Readiness to Transition From the Hospital to Home
  • 3:15 – 3:45 PM EDT – TBA
3:45 – 4:00 PM EDT – Break
4:00 – 4:30 PM EDT – Breakout Session
  • 4:00 – 4:30 PM EDT – Lisa Wiese – Engaging Nursing as Caring Theory to Strengthen Community Based Participatory Research
4:30 – 5:30 PM EDT – Daily Discussion

Tue, Mar 23, 2021 – 8:15 AM – 5:15 PM EDT

8:15 – 9:45 AM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 8:15 – 8:45 AM EDT – TBA
  • 8:45 – 9:15 AM EDT – TBA
  • 9:15 – 9:45 AM EDT – Elizabeth Zimmermann – Bringing Nursing Theory Alive In Pre-licensure Education
9:45 – 10:00 AM EDT – Break
10:00 – 11:30 AM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 10:00 – 10:30 AM EDT – Megan Foradori – Development of a Theoretical Model of Early Intervention Initiation
  • 10:30 – 11:00 AM EDT – TBA
  • 11:00 – 11:30 AM EDT – Richard Cowling III – A Call for a New Healing Holistic-Unitary Discourse
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT – Break
12:00 – 1:30 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 12:00 – 12:30 PM EDT – TBA
  • 12:30 – 1:00 PM EDT – TBA
  • 1:00 – 1:30 PM EDT – Pamela G Reed – From Philosophy to Precision in Nursing Theorizing
1:30 – 2:00 PM EDT – Break
2:00 – 3:30 PM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 2:00 – 2:30 PM EDT – TBA
  • 2:30 – 3:00 PM EDT – Katherine Britt – Patient Advocacy: Engaging families with Parse’s Theory of Humanbecoming at Endof-Life
  • 3:00 – 3:30 PM EDT – Tracey Arnold – A Theoretical Model of Nurse Well-being
3:30 – 3:45 PM EDT – Break
3:45 – 4:15 PM EDT – Breakout Session
  • 3:45 – 4:15 PM EDT – TBA
4:15 – 5:15 PM EDT – Daily Discussion

Wed, Mar 24, 2021 – 8:15 AM – 12:30 PM EDT

8:15 – 9:45 AM EDT – Breakout Sessions
  • 8:15 – 8:45 AM EDT – TBA
  • 8:45 – 9:15 AM EDT – TBA
  • 9:15 – 9:45 AM EDT – TBA
9:45 – 10:00 AM EDT – Break
10:00 AM – 12:00 Pm EDT – Keynote Closing Session
  • University of Tennessee – Memphis Nursing – The Significance of Margaret Newman’s Contributions to Nursology
  • Welcome to Memphis 2022! 
12:00 – 12:30 PM EDT – Daily Discussion