Author: Peggy L Chinn

We are delighted to announce that the publisher of Nursing Outlook has made the featured article for our 2025 Virtual Nursology Theory Week available for free download through the months of February and March! Use the DOI link below, the click on “Download PDF” that appears along the bottom of the page!

Iheduru-Anderson, Kechi, & Waite, Roberta. (2024). Decolonizing nursing education: Reflecting on Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed. Nursing Outlook, 72(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2024.102183 (free to download Feb-Mar 2025)

This article lays the groundwork for the conference theme, which is  Honoring Our Past and Moving Forward: Decolonizing Nursing Knowledge. This theme reflects our commitment to embracing our history while forging a path toward a future for nursing knowledge development that embraces historically marginalized knowledge systems and experiences. 

So download your copy of the article! Register for the 5-day virtual conference, and mark your calendar and plan to participate as much as you can!

Registration Information

Registration for the 2025 Virtual Nursology Theory Week (VNTW) is now open! The fee for the 5-day virtual event is $189! The conference will follow the traditions of the past few years – plenary sessions on Thursday, Saturday and Monday, along with 30-minute “knowledge sessions” based on your abstracts! Each day will end with open “daily dialogues” among all participants!

This year’s conference theme, Honoring Our Past and Moving Forward: Decolonizing Nursing Knowledge, reflects our commitment to embracing our history while forging a path toward a progressive and inclusive future in nursing. The inspiration of the conference theme is based on Iheduru-Anderson and Waite’s paper published in 2024 –

Iheduru-Anderson, Kechi, & Waite, Roberta. (2024). Decolonizing nursing education: Reflecting on Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed. Nursing Outlook, 72(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2024.102183

You can register for yourself, for yourself and a friend/colleague, or you can register for yourself and contribute the registration fee for a scholarship applicant! Here is the handy online Registration form

The annual Virtual Nursology Theory Week (VNTW) conference will be March 20-24, 2025, and the call for abstracts is now open! The theme, Honoring Our Past and Moving Forward: Decolonizing Nursing Knowledge, reflects our commitment to embracing our history while forging a path toward a progressive and inclusive future in nursing. The inspiration of the conference theme is based on Iheduru-Anderson and Waite’s paper published in 2024 –

Iheduru-Anderson, Kechi, & Waite, Roberta. (2024). Decolonizing nursing education: Reflecting on Paulo Freire’s pedagogy of the oppressed. Nursing Outlook, 72(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2024.102183

Please use this form to submit an abstract for the Virtual Nursing Theory Week to be held from March 20-24, 2025. Deadline for submission: December 1, 2024. Notification of status: December 31, 2024. Plan to include in your abstract a brief description of how your planned presentation aligns with the conference theme.

There will be two types of presentations during the conference; you can select your preference on the submission form, or leave the type open depending on the needs of the conference. Each Knowledge Session podium presentation will be 30 minutes long; we recommend 20 minutes to present plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Knowledge Session Poster presentations will be 5 minutes long during which time the presenter will provide an overview of their topic. After the poster overviews are completed, presenters will be moved to different Zoom Breakout Rooms to meet with attendees for questions and discussion for an extended period of time. Attendees will be able to move around to visit whatever posters they wish to discuss!

So sharpen your pencils (metaphorically of course!) and submit your abstract soon!  

See 2025 Virtual Nursology Theory Week Preliminary Information!

The 2024 Virtual Nursology Theory Week is now history, so it is now time to make sure you save the date for 2025! March 20-24, 2025

Our 2024 week was a major success – now a landmark event with 34 knowledge sessions, 3 plenary featured panels, and 4 posters, featuring the theme of Nursology theory think tanks! Big appreciations to all who made this possible — the 70 presenters, our fabulous zoom support crew, the session Ambassadors who kept us on track and stepped up to help with any and all details! We will be posting follow-up information and reflections over the coming weeks.

For everyone who participated, if you are planning think tanks or other activities inspired by our time together throughout the 2024 week, let us know! We will post what you are doing over the coming months! This “conference” is not simply an “event” – it is an experience that spills out in many different directions! And please complete the Evaluation form (see the link in Guidebook). Your feedback will be invaluable as we plan the event for 2025!

We have many nurse scholars from countries and cultures that speak languages other than English who are planning to attend the Virtual Nursology Theory Week! The conference will be presented in English, but Zoom now has a “translation” feature that everyone will be able to use during the conference, as needed! We know that the translations are likely to have a few glitches, particularly given the technical language that will be part of the conference. But it is wonderful to have this capability now being developed! Let’s try it and evaluate how well it serves our needs! This short video is provided by Ray Harwood, whose team will be managing our zoom platform for the conference!

The program for the March 21-25 2024 Virtual Nursology Theory Week is now available for preview, and registration is open! 

Theme – “Nursology Theory Think Tanks for the Future.” 

The conference program promises to be the best yet! The program features three plenary panels on Thursday, Saturday and Monday! The “knowledge sessions” each day feature speakers from over the world who submitted abstracts focusing on the development of nursing knowledge! Each day concludes with an hour-long “Daily Discussion” during which presenters and attendees can interact informally to discuss topics and issues that were presented during the day!

Register now to have access to all conference events and access to the digital conference “Guidebook.” The Guidebook will be available about a week before the conference begins, and will contain all presenter bios (with photo) and the slides to be used during their presentation. 

Due date: December 1, 2023

The theme for the 2024 conference will be “Nursology Theory Think Tanks for the Future.” We welcome abstracts at any time before the due date of December 1, 2023 at midnight Eastern. See the details on the “2024 Call for Abstracts” page, which you can also access from the main menu above. The abstracts will be reviewed and selected for the “Knowledge Sessions” that are outlined on the tentative program shown below.

The 2024 Virtual Nursology Theory Week will happen March 21-25, 2024!  The overall theme will be “Nursology Theory Think Tanks for the Future.” The conference will open on Thursday, March 21st at 10 am Eastern, featuring a presentation and discussion of the tradition of theory think tanks that was established by theorist Margaret Newman in the late 1970s through the mid 1980s, led by the Director of the Margaret Newman Center for Nursing Theory Dr. Marie Gill.  There will be a mid-conference plenary featuring a student and early scholars panel, and a closing presentation featuring the application of Nursing Patterns of Knowing to guide teaching and learning.  The call for abstracts will be open from October 1st through December 1st, 2023. The selected abstracts will form the 30-minute “knowledge sessions” and the posters that will be featured each day of the conference.  There will be one low, affordable conference registration fee, which will provide access to all conference events and access to the digital conference “Guidebook.” Registration for the conference will open in mid-January.   

Thursday, March 21 –

• 10 am EDT – Opening presentation
• Noon – 4 pm EDT – 30-minute Knowledge Sessions (with breaks)
• 4 – 5 pm EDT – Daily Discussion

Friday, March 22 –

• 10 am – 4 pm EDT – 30-minute Knowledge Sessions (with breaks)
• 4 – 5 pm EDT – Daily Discussion

Saturday, March 23 –

• 10 am EDT – Student and Early Scholar presentation
• Noon -30-minute Knowledge Sessions (with breaks)
• 3 -4 pm EDT – Daily Discussion

Sunday, March 24 –

• Noon EDT – 30-minute Knowledge Sessions (with breaks)
• 3 – 4 pm EDT – Daily Discussion

Monday, March 25 –

• 10 am EDT – 30-minute Knowledge Sessions (with breaks)
• 3 -4:30 pm EDT – Closing presentation

Submit your abstract for a knowledge session no later than December 1, 2023 at midnight Eastern!