Dear Hello, 

We honor the loss of  Nurse meta theorist Jacqueline Fawcett – March 18, 1941 – March 22, 2026

Other newsletter highlights include:

• Affiliate Spotlight: The University of Rhode Island College of Nursing

• Community News - publications, dates, and celebrations

• WCSI Caritas Consortia Events
• Celebrating Nurses Week!
• Your membership matters. Become a Member Today!

"The role of nursing is clear. Our discipline, and therefore our profession, is focused on wholeness, well-being, humanization, consciousness, relationship, pattern, meaning and purpose, caring, healing, environments, and transcending. Nursing, as a caring-healing profession, provides a much-needed transforming presence in the world.”

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Danny G. Willis, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FAAN Dean and Professor, URI College of Nursing 

 ~Dates for your calendar~

WCSI Regional Caritas Consortia™ (WCSI-RCC) are local grass-roots forums, that emerged from the Watson Caring Science Institute’s Onsite events, to increase opportunities to explore the philosophy, ethic, and practices of Caring Science in their local areas. Link to all upcoming events 

• Wednesday, May 27 | 3 - 4:30pm MST | SouthWest 
• Friday, May 29th | 10am PST | California
• Friday, June 5th | 4:30 - 6 PM EST | Florida

Publications

We're on the cover! Journal of Advanced Nursing

 Horton-Deutsch, S., J.Watson, and C.Griffin. 2026. “Caring Science as a Mature Solution to Global Healthcare Challenges.” Journal of Advanced Nursing82, no. 5: 5556–5565. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.70237.

Barr, E. A., and S.Horton-Deutsch. 2026. “The Trust-Link Relational Transition Model: A Unitary Caring Framework for Youth With HIV Transitioning to Adult Healthcare.” Journal of Advanced Nursing82, no. 5: 5479–5492. https://doi/10.1111/jan.70131

Connie Smith-Fassler & Penny Beattie (30 Mar 2026): A Fragile Safety Net:

When Healing Hurts, Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Suicide in Nurses, Issues in Mental Health Nursing. DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2026.2643120

Love and light, Jim, Rayne, Janet, and our entire scholars team!

Selection of 14 articles our Board Member Jim writes "NAQ Special Supplemental Issue is now online and ALL articles are open access for ease in downloading and sharing.  Virtually every article has a direct link to Caring Science, as you would expect. This is a landmark issue, other systems are clamoring to follow our lead, so we will see where it goes, but for now we have 14 new peer-review articles in print and available online for ALL."

We are so grateful for the partnership and ability to celebrate this with you all.

Thank you so much for reading our newsletter and being part of our community. Please share your announcements with us so we can celebrate you!

In gratitude of your enduring support,

Jean & Julie Watson and all at WCSI