2024 Program

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

The conference program promises to be the best yet! The theme is “Nursology Theory Think Tanks for the Future” building from the tradition started in the 1980’s by Margaret Newman! 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.

The Conference will be in English only. Please scroll down to see a brief video that explains the new zoom feature that provides for translation if you have a different preferred language.

Below is a preview of the conference program. Note that Daylight Savings Time starts in the U.S. on March 10th, so all the times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Details are subject to change – we will update as needed.

Thursday, March 21 –

9:30 am EDT Zoom opens
10 am – 11:45 am EDT – Opening Plenary: “Dr. Margaret A. Newman Center for Nursing: The Meaningful Connections of the Nursing Theory Think Tank for the 21st Century.” Overview of the status of the Dr. Margaret A. Newman Center for Nursing Theory and the history of the Nursing Theory Think Tanks, along with a special tribute to its members. The session will conclude with a panel discussion among UTHSC doctoral nursing students regarding the meaningful connections of nursing theory education for practice and research for the 21st century. Dr. Marie Gill, Director of the Margaret Newman Center for Nursing Theory and colleagues, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing – Brooke Ward, Evan Gregory, Kayla Wynja, and Jenn Dolgoff
11:45 am – 12:15 pm EDT – BREAK
12:15 – 12:45 pm EDT – “Nursing 101: Applying nursing theory to promote retention of diverse students” – Elizabeth Cunniff, Ph.D., RN, CNP, CNE, AHN-BC
12:45 – 1:15 pm EDT – “Back to the Future: Complexity and the Science of Unitary Human Beings” – Mike Taylor, RN, MHA
1:15 – 1:30 pm EDT – BREAK
1:30 – 2:00 pm EDT – “Antecedents and Consequences: Linking Professional Nursing Identity to Role Identity Formation Theory” – Maria O’Rourke, PhD RN FAAN
2:00 – 2:30 pm EDT – “Expanding Consciousness regarding Female Adolescents Developmental Health within the Context of Middle-East” – Zeyana Al Ismaili, RN, MSN, CPNP-PC/AC; Faye Gary, EdD, RN, FAAN
2:30 – 2:45 pm EDT – BREAK
2:45 – 3:15 pm EDT – “A ch’ixi Nursing is possible. Towards situated epistemologies” – Ursula Serdarevich, PhD Public Health
3:15 – 3:45 pm EDT – “Intellectual Structure of the “Nursology” Metaparadigm” – Virginia Ramos Dos Santos Souza, Doctorate in Nursing
4:00 – 5:00 pm EDT – DAILY DISCUSSION

Friday, March 22 –

9:30 am EDT – Zoom Opens
10:00 – 10:30 am EDT – “Your Truth Meter: A Paradigm Shift in Nurse Self-Care” – Teresa Walding, BSN, RN, NC-BC; Lyn McCright, MPH, APRN, AGNP, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC
10:30 – 11:00 am EDT – “For sustainable healthcare systems: focus on robustness rather than optimization” – Dan Lecocq, Research Scientist in Nursing, Université du Luxembourg
11:00 – 11:15 am EDT – BREAK
11:15 am – 12:15 pm EDT – Posters:
“Meaning And Joy at Work and Nursing Turnover” – Christine Frost, RN, MSN/MBA, NEA-BC
“A scoping review of extreme heat events and Maternal-child health ED visits” – Sarah Oerther, Ph.D., M.Ed, RN, FNP-BC, ANEF
“The Implementation of Hourly Rounding in the Emergency Department to Decrease Falls” – Dawn-Sherryl Nwaebube, MSN
“Nursing is Skillful Facilitation of Biologically Evolved and Culturally Co-Evolved Capacities for Self-Repair” – Chelsea Landolin, MS, RN, PMHNP-BC, ANP-C
12:15 – 12:45 pm EDT – BREAK
12:45 – 1:15 pm EDT – “Application of the Middle-Range Theory of Nurses’ Psychological Trauma to Nurse Practitioners” – Meg Gill, DNP, MSN, BSN, BA; Karen Foli, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
1:15 – 1:45 pm EDT “Nurse-patient mutuality in chronic illness: A conceptual framework and measurement” – Silvia Cilluffo, MSN, RN
1:45 – 2:00 pm EDT – BREAK
2:00 – 2:30 pm EDT – “How Nursology Conceptual Models Can Guide Nursology Health Policy Research” – Jacqueline Fawcett, RN; PhD; ScD (hon); FAAN; ANEF
2:30- 3:00 pm EDT – “Nursing Theory Guided Support for Healing Childhood Loss Experiences” – Linda Mefford, PhD, MSN, APRN, NNP-BC, RNC-NIC
3:00 – 3:30 pm EDT – “Understanding Gun Violence via Theory of Reasoned Action and Planned Behavior” – Mary Francis, PhD, ACNP-BC
3:30 – 4:30 pm EDT – DAILY DISCUSSION

Saturday, March 23 –

9:30 am EDT – Zoom opens
10:00 – 11:45 am EDT – Student and Early Scholar Panel – The purpose of this panel presentation is to discuss recommendations for future nursology theory think tanks focused on nursology conceptual model-guided health policy research. Each panelist will present a health policy of interest and discuss how a nursology conceptual model can guide research about the health policy, with ideas for further development of the research generated in nursology theory think tanks. Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD and students from the University of Massachusetts Boston – Eliza Goodhart Denœux, MSFS, RN, BSN, AB; Nicole DePace, MS, APRN, GNP-BC, ACHPN; Evans F Kyei, MSN BSN RN; Christopher Reeves, MSN, CNP, NPD-BC; Jill Vaughn, ACNP-BC, MSN, RN
11:45 am – 12:15 pm EDT – BREAK
12:15 – 12:45 pm EDT – “The Theory of Impeded Academic Perseverance: An Emerging Theory in Nursing Education” – Sandra Curtis, PhD, MSN, RN, GERO-BC
12:45 – 1:15 pm EDT – “Whiteness in Nursing Theorizing” – Peggy Chinn, RN, PhD, FAAN; Sandra Curtis, PhD, MSN, RN, GERO-BC; Donna Shambley-Ebron, PhD, RN, FTNSS
1:15 – 1:30 pm EDT – BREAK
1:30 – 2:00 pm EDT – “Who are the colonizers and the colonized: What does decolonialization look like?” – Jo Anne Bennett, RN, PhD
2:00 – 2:30 pm EDT – “Teaching global interdependence during the Anthropocene epoch” – Sarah Oerther, Ph.D., M.Ed, RN, FNP-BC, ANEF
2:30 – 2:45 pm EDT – BREAK
2:45 – 3:15 pm EDT – “Nursing Theory Reconsidered: A Collaboration Between Doctoral Learners and Faculty” – Erica Scarborough, MSN RN; Sandra Curtis, PhD, MSN, RN, GERO-BC
3:15 – 3:45 pm EDT – “Learner-Centered Caring Pedagogy in Doctoral Education: Actualizing Transpersonal Teaching Through Emancipatory Relating” – Sean Reed, PhD, APRN, ACNS-BC, ACHPN, AHN-BC, FCNS, SGAHN
3:45 – 4:45 pm EDT – DAILY DISCUSSION

Sunday, March 24 –

11:30 am EDT – Zoom opens
12:00 – 12:30 pm EDT – “The Case for Nursing Theory in the Practice Doctorate” – Deborah Lindell, DNP, MSN, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN; Esther Bernhofer, PhD, MA, RN, PMGT-BC
12:30 – 1:00 pm EDT – “Nursing Love: Theories, Research & Barrett’s Power as Knowing Participation in Change” – Rorry Zahourek, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC (ret), AHN-BC (ret), FAAN; Violet Malinski, PhD, RN
1:00 – 1:15 pm EDT – BREAK
1:15 – 1:45 pm EDT – “Does Resilient Healthcare Need More Hi-tech Sickcare, Economical Wellness Promotion, or Both?” – Daniel Oerther, PhD, PE, ANEF(h), FAAN(h)
1:45 – 2:15 pm EDT – “Transforming Maternity Care: A Theory-Informed Model for Humanizing Childbirth” – Doris Richardson, PhD Student
2:15 – 2:45 pm EDT – “A Theory-Informed Conceptual Model of Nurse Powerlessness” – Bryn Adams, MN, BA, RNC-MNN, RNC-OB, CNL
2:45 – 3:00 pm EDT – BREAK
3:00 – 3:30 pm EDT – “A Theory Substruction for Virtual Nursing” – Lindsay Colby, MA, BSN, RN; Olga Ehrlich, PhD, RN, CHPN
3:30 – 4:00 pm EDT – “Nurse Uses Film as an Expression of Emancipatory Knowing” – Ursula Fletcher, MHA, RN, CPHQ, CPPS
4:00 – 5:00 pm EDT – DAILY DISCUSSION

Monday, March 25 –

9:30 am EDT – Zoom opens
10:00 – 10:30 am EDT – “Development of Introduction to the Science of Caring: a foundational course” – Anna Boneberg, EdD, MSN, PNP-BC, CNE; Diane Bartella, MS, RN (PhD Candidate)
10:30 – 11:00 am EDT – “Evoking Dialogue Using a Curated Selection from Dr. Margaret Newman’s Archives” – Marie Gill, PhD, MSN, MS, RN; Jennifer Langford, CA, MLIS
11:00 – 11:15 am EDT – BREAK”
11:15 – 11:45 am EDT -“Health Equity Forensic Nursing Care: Expanded Conceptual Framework” – Jacqueline Callari Robinson, BSN, RN, SANE-A/P, DF-IAFN
11:45 am – 12:15 pm EDT – “How scientific is nursing? Answers from a new characterization of science” – Maya Zumstein-Shaha, PhD, MScN, RN, FAAN; Claus Beisbart, Professor; Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Professor Emeritus
12:15 – 1245 pm EDT – BREAK
12:45 – 1:15 pm EDT – “To Move Beyond the Nightingale Pledge: A Critical Theory Critique” – Marin Strong, BSN, RN
1:15 – 1:45 pm EDT – “Prevalence of Nursing Theory Citations in Non-Nursing Publications” – Jennifer Wentzel, MSN, RN, CCRN; Jane Dickinson, RN, PhD, CDCES; Lexi Ayala, MSN, RN, CPN; Janet Schwenk, MSN, RN-BC, CNE
1:45 – 2:00 pm EDT – BREAK
2:00 – 2:30 pm EDT – “Academic Failure in Baccalaureate Nursing Students. Instrument Development and Conceptual Orientation” – Zane Wolf, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN; Sharon Mingo, DNP, MSN, RN
2:30 – 3:00 pm EDT – “Integrating AACN Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice in Curriculum Development” – Marlaine Smith, RN; PhD; AHN-BC, HWNC-BC; HSGAHN, FAAN

3:00 -5:00 pm EDT – Closing Panel – Expanding on Newman’s* 1978 think tank tradition, the Endnote Panel Discussion will delve into the concept of Weathering-To-Joy among Nursing and Healthcare professionals from diverse communities. Using a Think Tank approach, this session aims to inspire theory development, research, program co-design, and social justice integration for equity in clinical practice. This concluding session features Michelle Y. Williams, PhD, RN, FAAN with colleagues from Stanford Medicine and other renowned institutions, and marks the formal launch of the groundbreaking Weathering-To-Joy Program of Research THINK TANK. Panelists include Dr. Sharon B. Hampton, Dr. Sheldon D. Fields, Dr. Alice Yan, Dr. Michele Diaz Nelson, Dr. Leon Caldwell, and Dr. Randolph F. R. Rasch.

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