Rosemarie Rizzo Parse

Rosemarie Rizzo Parse is professor and Niehoff Chair at Loyola University Chicago. She is founde 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.