When: January 21, 2027, 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Host: Peggy L. Chinn, RN, Phd, FAAN
Moderator: TBD
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Forum description
There is a tendency for nurse educators, nurses in practice, and nurses in research and administration, to dismiss nursing theory as irrelevant to their practical day-to-day work. This Forum will challenge this idea, and provide compelling reasons to recognize the imperative to think and act from the perspectives that characterize our discipline. The Forum will provide an overview of the resources available on Nursology.net and on SONEI.org (website for the Society for Nursing Ethics International), highlighting ways these ideas shape our actions.
Critical Questions for Discussion
- Many research projects, practice setting and nursing education programs do not yet ground their work in nursing theory, and perspectives related to ethics tend to be co-opted by discourse around medical bio-ethics . Assuming change is needed to bring nursing knowledge to the center, how can we encourage and facilitate this change?
- What are the barriers to making this change? How can these barriers be addressed and overcome?
- In Nursing education, what could a “Nursology 101” course be for entry-level programs? For advanced degree programs a “Nursology 601”? What changes are needed to bring nursing ethics to the center? What resistance would faculty face in creating such courses?
About the host
I earned my BS in nursing from the University of Hawaii, where our curriculum was developed on the model of Dorothy Johnson, and we learned about Virginia Henderson‘s idea about the nature of nursing. In my graduate program at the University of Utah, I learned about Martha Rogers from faculty who were engaged in research based on Roger’s ideas, and attended an inspiring lecture by Josephine Paterson and Loretta Zderad. In my own PhD program, I focused on the development of theory, how it was developed and how it shaped practice. Then in my first faculty position at Texas Woman’s University, Barbara Carper became my faculty colleague and shared with us her work related to the fundamental patterns of knowing – an “aha” encounter that has shaped my entire career. Fast forward – my love for the knowledge of our discipline continues in the form of my focus on the development of web-based resources related to nursing knowledge.
