Nursology.net: Premier Resource for Nursing Knowledge

The Nursology.net website, which has become a world-wide signature website for nursing, provides indispensable resources related to nursing knowledge, as well as inspiration for the development of new knowledge that meets the evolving health needs of populations world-wide.

The site has over seven thousand visitors every week, coming from countries all over the world! In addition to the gallery of nursing Theories and models, the site features information related to all nursing patterns of knowing and philosophies, resources related to the development of nursing knowledge, historical events and achievements in the area of nursing knowledge development, and exemplars of the application of nursing theory in guiding practice, research, education, health policy, and quality improvement. The site provides notices of future events sponsored by nursing theory-focused groups and similar opportunities for networking with other scholars.

A prime feature of the site is the blog, providing a post at least once a week, reaturing the voices of students, early career scholars, established theorists, practitioners, and and nursing leaders. The recent blog post authors illustrate the diversity of perspectives that the blog offers:

• Marsha Fowler, author of the ground-breaking book  Nursing Ethics, 1880s to the Present: An Archeology of Lost Wisdom and Identity, shared her experience surviving the Altadena wildfire in Los Angeles, and the centrality of nurses in her experience.
• Fateimah Ahmed Hakami, from Saudi Arabia and currently a doctoral student in nursing, writes about the power of nursing autonomy and calls on all nurses to claim our right to be empowered. She refers readers to the many theories that underpin autonomous practice, like Patricia Benner’s “Novice to Expert” model —a classic in understanding the evolution of nursing expertise.
• Nurse scholars John Nelson, Dan Pesut, and Connie Delaney share a tribute to their late colleague, Marie Ellen Manthey, who passed away in December 2024. Marie Manthey pioneered the prmary nursing model of care based on the  Relationship Based Care framework.
• Thelma Ogochukwu Ejimofor is a PhD nursing student at Johns Hopkins University, addresses the crisis in African immigrant youth mental health through the lens of Madeleine Leininger’s Culture Care Theory