Clinical Appraisal

In this episode, Ian speaks with NIH Lasker Clinical Scholar, Dr. Paule V. Joseph, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, about her experiences as a nurse scientist focused on the translation of basic science questions into practice. Her work specifically concentrates on chemosensory (taste and smell) dysfunction arising from metabolic conditions(i.e., obesity) , but she has a wealth of experience in every facet of cli...

In this episode, Ian reviews a 2016 paper in Diabetologia predicated on the self-care management of type 2 diabetes with a walking intervention aiming to evaluate 10-min. post-meal walks 3x/day compared to standard 30-min. walking advice for daily physical activity in an effort to control blood sugar levels.

In this episode, Ian had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Martha A. Dawson, DNP, RN, FACHE, an esteemed nurse executive, Associate Professor of nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Dawson is a health administration expert and implementation researcher, and the current President/CEO of the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA). This inspirational interview describes Martha's...

In this episode, Ian speaks with Dr. Joshua Lea, DNP, MBA, CRNA, an Assistant Clinical Professor at Northeastern University's School of Nursing, about his research interests in occupational wellness and burnout amongst healthcare professionals and nurses in particular, including the importance and ramifications of this issue for both providers and for patients.

In this episode, Ian speaks with Dr. Maureen Moriarty, DNP, ANP, FAHS, a primary care headache specialist with a private practice in Maryland about her journey through academics and to becoming a principal investigator.

In this episode, Ian has a discussion with Dr. Susan Strobel, DNP, MPH, RN, Assistant Professor of Nursing and Public Health at University of South Dakota, about her experiences as a DNP-prepared clinical investigator and academic scholar. This is part one in a brief series called "Showcasing DNP Scholars." (If you know exceptional DNP-prepared nurse scientists or academicians, please send Ian an...

In this episode, Ian describes some of the better and worse reasons to pursue a PhD in Nursing Science, from his perspective having spent time in a PhD program and working under PhD-prepared investigators at the medical school prior to entering graduate studies. This is a response to a listener question.

In this episode, Ian discusses the question of whether PI eligibility status is granted on the basis of having earned a PhD and what role a DNP-prepared investigator might serve in clinical research as a team lead. Furthermore, Ian describes the many avenues a DNP-trained professional nurse interested in pursuing an academic research career might go about trying to make this dream a reality.

In this episode, Ian describes what Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is and what Participatory Action Research methods often look like when done comprehensively, and details just a few of the myriad ways it could be beneficial for nurse researchers to adopt as a methodology in their patient-oriented outcomes related scientific work.

In this episode, Ian speaks with Dr. D. Anthony Tolentino, PhD, RN-BC, a National Clinician Scholars Fellow at the University of Michigan School of Nursing about his experience working in health informatics as a nurse informaticist and gaining some insight not only into the types of methods and analyses Dr. Tolentino has used in his work (including computational ethnographic methods using Markov c...

In this episode, Ian discusses relative versus absolute risk ratios and number needed to treat (NNT). In it, he describes some of the ways each are used and under what conditions it might be best to use one over the other, as well as what precisely the NNT really means. Finally, he concludes with some thoughts about how interpreting regression output is bound to be a vital skill for DNP-prepared n...

In this episode, Ian describes an issue he sees with qualitative analysis, whereby a kappa coefficient for inter-rater reliability is often met and then forgotten about, once, but that consistency in these reliability scores is problematic both within raters but also between raters. Furthermore, there is an issue of inter-subject disagreement and intra-subject disagreement. In the end, there seems...

In this episode, Ian riffs off-the-cuff about a fascinating book he's currently reading by Dr. Janice Morse, a well-regarded anthropologist and nurse researcher who pioneered the field of qualitative health research, laying out some of the advantages and disadvantages, as well as some of the limitations, of qualitative methodology and how it ties into the philosophy of science conversations which...

In this episode, Ian details a nice paper by McLaughlin, Hartjes, and Freeman who tracked 20 of their own Neuro ICU patients who were receiving the standard hour-by-hour neurological examinations after admission to the Neuro ICU to find out whether sleep deprivation might be related to the potential for seeing increased neurological deterioration or ICU delirium during their tenure on the unit. Th...

The title says it all. (Note: The concept of "Nursing Praxis" has been referred to as a kind of seamless union of Nursing Theory, Practice and Research.)

In this episode, Ian passionately describes his reasoning behind the belief that Nursing Theory ought to backpeddle toward practitioners as the existential philosophical enterprise has it seemingly running toward extinction, as it leaps further and further away from what practitioners actually need or care about. Then he reads through 21 definitions of what Nursing is or consists of by the thought...

In this episode, Ian decribes two different definitions of what constitutes nursing - one from the 1960s and one from the 1990s, as nursing science trended toward an epistemology much more tightly aligned with postmodern existentialism as it moved away from logical empiricism. This is to provide a glimpse of what may frustrate students about Nursing Theory coursework; it often strikes them as not...

In this episode, Ian continues a conversation on the necessary constituents of what comprise Nursing Science as such. A continuation of the previous episode, this time Ian gives such compelling reasons why we ought not consider nurse scientists to merely be researchers who identify as nurses. In the end, the position Ian lands on is that it may indeed be the case that Nursing Science exists, per s...

In this episode, Ian describes some plausible distinctions between nursing and medicine and, thus, nursing science and medical science. Beginning with fundamental definitions and philosophical considerations, he contends that there may in fact be a distinct nursing science paradigm set apart from other disciplines in the sciences, but in order to conclude that we must first generate a consensus de...

In this episode, Ian speaks with David Warren, NP, a triple-board certified nurse practitioner about his practical experiences as a clinical expert in the field of emergency care across six years of travel nursing. Together, they discuss some of the challenges David has seen in the contemporary field of advanced practice nursing, specific to nurse practitioners, and speculate about ways high-quali...

In this episode, Ian speaks with Dr. Anne Sales, PhD, RN, a nurse and professor in Michigan and a notable health services researcher. A founding co-editor in chief of the journal Implementation Science Communications, Anne discusses with Ian the advent of implementation science as a discipline and its relationship to health services research and nursing science.

In this episode, Ian speaks with Catherine Nagawa, MS, a PhD student in her final year of a clinical & population health research program, whose work focuses on health behavior change and smoking cessation. She joins Ian today to discuss how the various theories of health behavior might be applicable to things nurses and nurse researchers care about, including clinical interviewing, self-manag...

In this episode, Ian goes through a recent, interesting paper published in the Journal of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing by Vreman and colleagues from the Netherlands, wherein the authors describe the sound pressure effects of various alarm bells in differing ICU environments, at various timepoints throughout the day.

In this episode, Ian discusses the internalization of nursing theories in the everyday practice of nursing which is taken for granted as just being part and parcel of nursing, but which actually resulted from the theorizing of specific nursing thinkers throughout the ages. In an attempt to help bridge the gap between practice and theory, Ian sees one of the many necessary steps as helping nurses o...

In this episode, Ian speaks at length with John Canion, NP, a board certified emergency nurse practitioner in the State of Texas, who has become passionate about NP educational reform. John walks Ian through his thinking on where the current problems are, from where they may have arisen, and what he sees as some viable movements forward to overcome some of the political strife the field is contend...