Policy education in a research-focused doctoral nursing program: Power as knowing participation in change.

Nurses have moral obligations incurred by membership in the profession to participate knowingly in health policy advocacy. Many barriers have historically hindered nurses from realizing their potential to advance health policy. The contemporary political context sets additional challenges to policy work due to polarization and conflict.

Unitary Human-Environment Field Mutual Process: Knowing Participation in Patterning the Environment.

Martha E. Rogers identified people and their environment as unitary, indivisible wholes, further defining both as energy fields identified by rhythmical patterning. It is suggested that sharper focus be placed on the contribution of the environment in wellbecoming to encourage people to participate more knowingly in patterning the environmental field.

Remembering Elizabeth Ann Manhart Barrett, RN; PhD; FAAN, Her Life and Legacy.

This is a tribute to Dr. Elizabeth Ann Manhart Barrett, creator of the Power as Knowing Participation in Change theory and research tool. Her life is described in her own words via the obituaries she wrote for her family to share in various venues.

Pregnant With Promise for Far Too Long: Time to Deliver!

The meaning of the terms nursing science and science of nursing are briefly explored from an historical perspective than from a Rogerian nursing science perspective. Seminal ideas from Martha Rogers' writings, including an editorial from the inaugural issue of the journal Nursing Science, are noted. The author concludes with a Rogerian nursing science perspective of the unitary rhythm of dying-grieving with examples from participants of a qualitative study of the experience of relating to a loved one who has died.