Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice: Opportunities and Directions

Sister Callista L. Roy (PhD, RN, FAAN), is a Professor and Nurse Theorist at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, where she teaches doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students. Dr. Roy is best known for her work on the Roy adaptation model of nursing. Her current clinical research is an intervention study to involve families in cognitive recovery of patients with mild head injury. Her other scholarly work includes conceptualizing and measuring coping and developing the philosophical basis for the adaptation model and for the epistemology of nursing. Roy has numerous publications, including books and journal artices, on nursing theory and other professional topics. Her works have been translated into many languages all over the world. With her colleagues at the Roy Adaptation Association, she has critiqued and synthesized the first 230 research projects published in English based on her adaptation model. Dr. Roy has also delivered invited papers, lectures, and workshops throughout North America and 30 other countries over the past 30 years on topics related to nursing theory, research, curriculum, clinical practice, and professional trends for the future. She began her education at Mount Saint Mary's College in Los Angeles, and has master's degrees in pediatric nursing and sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she also earned her PhD. She holds honorary doctorates from four other institutions. Her postdoctoral studies in neuroscience nursing were at the University of California at San Francisco.

Dorothy A. Jones (EdD, RNC, ANP, FAAN), is a Professor of Adult Health at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, where she formerly served as Chair of the Adult Health Department from 1995 to 1999. She is a Senior Nurse Scientist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and formerly a President of the Eastern Nursing Resesarch Society. She has been involved in nursing language development serving as past President of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association. Jones's research includes a NIH-funded study focusing on patients' recovery at home following ambulatory surgery, theory development related to Margaret Newman's Health as Expanding Consciousness, evaluation research, and instrument development. Her many awards include Boston College's Teaching Excellence Award in 2005, Partners Award for Excellence in Practice in 1998 and 2003, the Indiana University School of Nursing Outstanding Alumni Award, and the Sigma Theta Tau International Founders Award in 2000. Jones has a strong record of curriculum development and mentorship with graduate students, as evidence by their scholarship nationally and internationally. She received her BSN from Long Island University and Brooklyn Hospital School of Nursing and earned graduate degrees from Indiana University and Boston University.