Thoughts About Population Health Nursing Research Methods: Questions About Participants and Informed Consent.

The purpose of this essay is to discuss who participants should be in population health nursing research within the context of the Conceptual Model of Nursing and Population Health. The emphasis is on recruitment of research participants who constitute populations rather than samples drawn from populations and the challenges of obtaining informed consent from populations.

Thoughts about the Name of Our Discipline.

This essay addresses the name of our discipline. Discussion of the use of the term, nursology, focuses on the origin of the term, its use as a name for our discipline and its use as a research method and a practice methodology. Advantages and disadvantages of nursology as the name for our discipline are gleaned from PhD program students' responses to a question posed by Reed (1997).