Nursing Science Quarterly最新文献

The authors describe the phases (conceptualizing, actualizing, and ensuring success of science) necessary for developing a successful research grant application for funding. Emphasis is on the development of an important and novel research question, clear conceptualization of the study, development of specific aims, theory to guide the study, a well-designed approach, and the role of teamwork to enhance success. The challenges that can occur during these phases of grant writing are also addressed.

Although many situation-specific theories have been developed during the past several years, few of them have been analyzed and evaluated using criteria that are relevant for this type of theory. The purpose of this paper is to propose modifications in Fawcett's analysis and evaluation criteria of theories for application to situation-specific theories. The position taken is that important but minor adjustments are required to make these criteria suitable for the analysis and evaluation of situation-specific theories, taking the similarities and differences between middle-range theories and situation-specific theories into account.

Nurse scholar Karen J. Foli has had an unconventional trajectory. She has written everything from mysteries to thrillers to peer-reviewed journal manuscripts and Food and Drug Administration documents. She conceptualized and disseminated two middle-range theories, one surrounding parental postadoption depression and one surrounding nurses' psychological trauma. Foli's research has revealed a new type of nurse-specific trauma, insufficient resource trauma, which calls for efforts at the organizational level. Winner of several book of the year awards, she is now working on a third middle-range theory. Dr. Foli shares her journey and encourages nurses to give theory a shot.

In this paper, a community of eight aspiring Parse scholars presents experiences with a scholarly investigation using Parse's humanbecoming concept inventing model to discover the meaning of the nursing phenomenon hope as a universal humanuniverse living experience. The now-truth of the universal humanuniverse living experience hope surfaced as envisioning possibilities with sureness-unsureness arising with opportunities-restrictions. The ingenuous proclamation of hope, together with the aspiring Parse scholars' chosen artform, is declared as a theoretical statement at the level of the humanbecoming paradigm is imaging the originating of enabling-limiting. The contributions of aspiring Parse scholars offer opportunities to advance nursing knowledge of the universal humanuniverse living experience hope.

The major aim of this study was to understand the experience of resilience in adolescents and young adults within the context of a unitary caring science and to generate insights into ways to cultivate resilience in adolescents and young adults who have experienced adversity. Four major essences emerged and were synthesized into one statement. Maintaining hope and optimism for a promising future is acknowledging awareness and acceptance and experiencing connectedness while embracing power in the situation. The essences were interpreted within a theory of unitary caring.

The aim of this article is to report on Italian nurses' perceptions of their performance and work-related behaviors. The data for the study were derived from a questionnaire that included the items from the Individual Workplace Performance Scale, which was distributed via the internet during March 2021. The analysis of the responses found that women complained more about their work than men. Older nurses reported concerns about keeping up-to-date; they also thought that they carried out their work more efficiently than younger nurses and that they were better able to come up with creative solutions for new problems. The nurses who had been working for 6 to 10 years reported feeling more vulnerable in their positions. Further research is needed to help nurse managers manage their staff and reach their organizational goals.

This article uses storytelling, poetry, and findings from a humanbecoming inquiry on sadness to explore a humanuniverse living experience involving change and loss.