Nursology.net is a web site for nurse scholars, developed and maintained by nurse scholars. Specifically, the web site is a repository for resources about nursing conceptual models, grand theories, middle-range theories, and situation-specific theories, philosophies and associated methodologies.
The mission of nursology.net is to provide access to sentinel, contemporary, comprehensive, and authentic nursing knowledge development in order to facilitate advancement of nursing science and humanistic initiatives worldwide and across time.
Specifically, the purposes of this site are to:
- Be the nurse led, nurse developed repository providing the most current and accurate information about nursing discipline-specific knowledge that advances human betterment globally.
- Promote nursing discipline-specific knowledge that will advance human betterment globally.
- Facilitate dissemination of nursing knowledge across time.
- Provide access to links to nursing theory based organizations, conferences, seminal publications and ongoing work in practice, research, education, and health policy.
- Foster collaboration among nurse scholars at local, regional, national, and international levels.
Our mission is guided by the following principles and assumptions:
- Nursology is a distinct discipline that is vital to the health and wellbeing of people worldwide, our families, communities and nations.
- Nursology is multi-dimensional, bringing together a variety of theoretic and philosophic perspectives, each of which makes a significant contribution to the distinct nature of the discipline as a whole.
- Nursology is an autonomous discipline based on values and ideals that bring a unique and necessary dimension to healthcare.
- Nursology intersects with other healthcare disciplines, draws on knowledge from other disciplines, and functions in cooperation and collaboration with other disciplines, but remains distinct and autonomous because of particular perspectives arising from the experience of caring for those who are sick or injured, and from the experience of promoting health and wellbeing for individuals, families, communities and the environments in which they reside.
Nancyruth Leibold (Faculty)