Rosemarie Rizzo Parse, RN; PhD; FAAN |
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Dr.
Parse is a graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and received her
master's and doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a member of
the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh, Dean of the Nursing School at
Duquesne University, Professor and Coordinator of the Center for Nursing
Research at Hunter College of the City University of New York (1983-1993),
and Professor and Niehoff Chair at Loyola
University Chicago (1993-2006). Since January 2007 she has been a Consultant
and Visiting Scholar at the New York University College of Nursing. Dr. Parse
is founder and current Editor of Nursing Science Quarterly, and President of
Discovery International, Inc. She is also founder of the Institute of
Humanbecoming. |
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Dr.
Parse is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing where she initiated and
is the immediate past Chair of the nursing theory-guided practice expert
panel. In her role as Editor of Nursing Science Quarterly, she has
spear-headed a well-known, highly cited venue for nurse scholars to share and
to debate matters important to nursing research and theory development. For
this and her other works, Dr. Parse has received several honors.
She has been given two Lifetime Achievement Awards (one from the Midwest
Nursing Research Society and one from the Asian Nurses’ Association), the Rosemarie Rizzo Parse Scholarship was endowed in her name at the
Henderson State University School of Nursing, her books were twice named to
the “best picks” list of theory books by Sigma Theta Tau
International Honor Society in Nursing, and the Society of Rogerian Scholars
honored her with the Martha E. Rogers Golden Slinky Award. |
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Throughout
her career, Dr. Parse has made outstanding contributions to the profession of
nursing through her progressive leadership in nursing theory, research,
education, and practice. She has developed leading-following,
teaching-learning, mentoring, and family models that are used worldwide. She
has published 9 books and more than 100 articles and editorials about matters
pertinent to nursing. Dr. Parse is a sought-after speaker who has shared her
knowledge and passion in over 300 local, national, and, international
presentations and workshops in more than 30 countries on 5 continents. Her
works have been translated into many languages, and she regularly consults
throughout the world with educational programs in nursing and with multiple
disciplines in healthcare settings that are utilizing her work as a guide to research,
practice, leadership, education, and regulation of quality standards. Dr.
Parse has planned and implemented many international conferences on nursing
theory, the humanbecoming school of thought, qualitative research, and quality of
life. Dr. Parse has chaired over 30 doctoral dissertations,
guided over 100 students with creative conceptualization regarding their
research, and mentored faculty members and students working on qualitative
and quantitative research proposals, grant applications, and manuscripts for
publications. She has conducted and published multiple qualitative research
studies about lived experiences of health and quality of life (such as hope,
laughing, joy-sorrow, feeling respected, contentment, feeling very tired, and
quality of life for persons with Alzheimer’s disease) and taught a
variety of theory and research courses in multiple institutions of higher
learning. Rosemarie Rizzo Parse is an articulate, courageous, and
vibrant leader with a strong vision and a deliberate determination to advance
the discipline of nursing. She is well-known internationally for her theory
of human becoming—a nursing perspective that focuses on quality of life
and human dignity from the perspective of patients, families, and
communities. Dr. Parse is an inspirational mentor whose diligent loving
presence, consistent and willing availability, and respectful and gentle
urgings have helped many seasoned and budding nurse scholars to pursue their
dreams. Those who have had the honor of working
with her, as students and colleagues are honored to know and to have been
mentored by this truly outstanding nurse leader. |
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Additional
information about Dr. Parse and humanbecoming can be found on the
video/CD-ROM: Rosemarie Rizzo Parse: Human Becoming. It is part of the
series, Nurse Theorists: Portraits of Excellence, published and distributed
by : |
