Rosemarie Rizzo Parse
Rosemarie Rizzo Parse is
professor and Niehoff Chair at Loyola University Chicago. She is founder and
editor of Nursing Science Quarterly, president of Discovery International,
Inc., which sponsors international nursing theory conferences, and founder of
the Institute of Human Becoming, where she teaches the ontological,
epistemological, and methodological aspects of the human becoming school of
thought. Dr. Parse is the author of many articles and books including: Nursing
Fundamentals; Man-Living-Health: A Theory of Nursing; Nursing Science: Major
Paradigms, Theories and Critiques; Nursing Research: Qualitative Methods
(co-authored); Illuminations: The Human Becoming Theory in Practice and
Research; The Human Becoming School of Thought: A Perspective for Nurses and
other Health Professionals; Hope: An International Human Becoming Perspective,
and Qualitative Inquiry: The Path of Sciencing. Some of her works have been
published in Danish, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, and Korean. In
addition, The Human Becoming School of Thought was selected for Sigma Theta Tau
and Doody Publishing's "Best Picks" list in the nursing theory book
category in 1998. Hope: An International Human Becoming Perspective was
selected for the same list in 1999.
Dr. Parse's theory is a guide
for practice in healthcare settings in Canada, Finland, South Korea, Sweden,
and the United States; her research methodology is used as a method of inquiry
by nurse scholars in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Japan,
South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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, was dean of the Nursing School at Duquesne University, and, from
1983-1993, was professor and coordinator of the Center for Nursing Research at
Hunter College of the City University of New York. She has consulted throughout
the world with doctoral programs in nursing and with healthcare settings that
are utilizing her theory as a guide to research, practice, education, and
regulation.
