The nurse theorists: 21st-century updates--Rosemarie Rizzo Parse.

The nurse theorists: 21st-century updates--Jean Watson. Interview by Jacqueline Fawcett.

Jean Watson had planned to write a book about an integrated curriculum for a baccalaureate curriculum in nursing. Instead, she developed a novel structure for basic nursing processes, which was published in the bookNursing: ThePhilosophy and Science of Caring (Watson, 1979). The work presented in that book solved some of Watson’s conceptual and empirical problems about nursing and formed the fo...

The nurse executive: challenges for the 21st century.

AIM The aim of this paper is to examine the challenges facing the nurse executive in the 21st century by questioning the traditional attributions of leadership to the nurse executive role. BACKGROUND Historically, the leadership role in nursing has been assumed by the nurse executive. The predominantly female character of nursing, however, has ensured that demonstrations of leadership amongst...

A multidimensional analysis of the epistemic origins of nursing theories, models, and frameworks.

The purpose of this article is to introduce our notion of epistemic space and to demonstrate its utility for understanding the origins and trajectories of nursing theory in the 20th century using multidimensional scaling (MDS). A literature review was conducted on primary and secondary sources written by and about 20 nurse theorists to investigate whether or not they cited 129 different scholar...

Preparation of Nurse Leaders in the 21 st Century Workplace

The restructuring mania of health care settings of the 1980s and 1990s was driven by the need to save money, with organizations emphasizing efficiency over patient safety. A common action that took place in the restructuring was the elimination of nurse manager positions and the perceived reduction in power of chief nurse executives.2 The nursing managers who remained employed in most health ca...

The Challenges of Cognitive Neuroscience in the 21st Century