Nursing Science Quarterly

Mystery, one of the four postulates of the humanbecoming paradigm, is the focus of this article. The muteness, the transformative power, and the everyday-ness of mystery are discussed. How mystery permeates the three principles of humanbecoming is also explored.

The necessity of having peer review is the subject of this column. To that end, the nature of truth, standards by which quantitative and qualitative research studies are judged, and predatory publishing are considered along with an example of the adverse impact of scientific misconduct. Finally, a call for more intense peer review is put forth.

Predatory publishing is a contemporary term that refers to dubious open access publishing where there are questionable practices of marketing, business, and alteration of peer-review publishers’ practices. This article begins a straight-thinking discussion with recommendations intended to inform present and future scholars of the discipline of nursing of these alarming developments in the publishing arena.

In this era of exponential growth of technology, new opportunities seem to arise daily for doing the work of teaching-learning more efficiently and effectively. However, each new opportunity also has inherent risks and challenges that concurrently restrict such work. With technology providing the opportunity for scholars and researchers to connect across time, space, and artificial boundaries, two relatively newer phenomena have emerged: open access publishing and networked science. In this column, these phenomena are explored. Although rich with opportunities, these phenomena are fraught with potential dangers for nurse scientists and faculty. Clearly, as new possibilities unfold in nursing science and publishing, wisdom is needed to assure the integrity and rigor of the research being conducted and what is published.

The author in this article focuses on exploring a brief historical background of the diagnosis labeled diabetes mellitus and honoring persons who seek nursing care through incorporating Orem’s self-care deficit theory. The author highlights utilizing a nursing theoretical framework as an important takeaway to enhance congruence among theory, research, practice, and education. This propels the discipline’s meaning and interdisciplinary contributions to persons living with this diagnosis.

Type 2 diabetes impacts over 30 million Americans and that number is increasing. Fundamental to optimal Type 2 diabetes control and improved health outcomes consists is effective self-management. There are several factors that promote and inhibit sustained and effective self-management. The established and evidence-based self and family management framework is proposed here as a solution for guiding research and practice to improve self-management and outcomes in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

A wave of new publishing options has opened for nursing. This dialogue examines factors, such as quality and cost, that may influence new authors. There are numerous options for young scientists with many new journal titles and promises of a quick review and guaranteed publication. Choices between Open Access and conventional journals can be difficult since higher cost to the author does not correlate with higher quality.

The concept of adaptive preferences, as a phenomenon that inhibits human flourishing, has received considerable attention in the philosophical literature but not so much in the nursing literature. Yet given the nursing perspective of health, it is a relevant, if not critical, problem for practice as well as an intriguing area for scientific inquiry. As background, I present a review of dominant philosophical models of health from which I synthesize an expanded model of health that integrates naturalist and normative philosophical dimensions. I then present current philosophical work on adaptive preferences and recommend that this philosophical concept represents an empirical health process in need of scientific study in nursing as a discipline focused on health and well-being.

The evolution of Rogers’ use of the word unitary and the changing frontiers of her science are discussed. The author shows how Rogers’ science illuminates issues in nursing such as nursing as a basic or applied science, health as wellbecoming, and proposed changes in nursing education and research. The process of the creation of the pandimensional awareness-integral presence theory is presented.

The author in this paper discusses the phenomenon of feeling overwhelmed. Through the use of the humanbecoming concept inventing model, the author illuminates the now-truth of feeling overwhelmed as drowning frenzy amid potential calmness with the opportunities-restrictions of envisioning possibles. An ingenuous proclamation is presented and declared as imaging the enabling-limiting of transforming with the scholar’s chosen artform. These unique contributions offer illimitable opportunities for nurse scholars to advance knowledge of the universal humanuniverse living experience of feeling overwhelmed.

This study was conducted to find out the effects of different means of games used during pediatric blood draw on the levels of procedure-induced fear and anxiety. Patient descriptive information form and selected scales were completed for both the experimental and control group before the blood drawing procedure. During the blood draw procedure, the children in the experimental group listened to music and watched video games. Following the blood draw procedure, the children were given the Fear of Medical Procedure Scale and State Anxiety Inventory for a second time. The results of the study showed that differences between pre- and postprocedure average total scores of Fear of Medical Procedure Scale were statistically significant for all groups (p < .05). As a conclusion, it was found that making children listen to music or watch a video during blood draw was effective in decreasing their medical procedure fear levels and state anxiety.

The term rigor appears in nursing education literature, but the definitions are inconsistent. Likewise, there is variation in the implementation of rigor in nursing curricula and courses. Nurse educators need a clear and shared understanding of rigor to prepare graduates to use critical thinking. The purpose of this concept analysis is to gain understanding of the meaning of rigor in nursing education so that educators can establish a standardized definition, which will contribute to consistency of its application in learning environments with uniform criteria for curricula evaluation.

The purposes of this paper are to identify and explore ways to overcome barriers to the implementation of Watson’s human caring science in Iran. A literature search was done of PubMed, Elsevier, Science Direct, Ovid, ProQuest, Web of science, and Google Scholar between 1991 and 2018 using the search terms Watson’s theory, clinical nursing, nursing theory, barriers to using theory, and carative factors or processes, separately and in combination. Organizational-level, practitioner-level, and educational barriers were found, and solutions for each are explored.

It is important to explore the ways in which registered nurses (RNs) influence care across a variety of settings. There has been a clear call for baccalaureate-prepared RNs (BSN-RNs) to have a place at the forefront of primary healthcare. This place in primary care is important, but it needs to be grounded in unique nursing knowledge within the extant nursing models and theories. The purpose of this paper is to explore the roles of nurses in primary care with policy connections to nursing theories and models.

This is the second of two essays addressing equity and social justice, which are interrelated concepts of considerable interest to members of our discipline. The purpose of this essay is to define social justice within the context of the conceptual model of nursing and health policy and to link social justice with equity in population health and with practice. An essay about equity appeared in a previous issue of Nursing Science Quarterly.