Kathleen Sitzman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF

Kathleen Sitzman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, is Professor, Undergraduate Nursing Science, East Carolina University, NC. Prior to that she was simultaneously Director, Bachelor of Integrated Studies Program, Weber State University, Ogden, UT, and faculty in the School of Nursing. Dr. Sitzman has been a nurse since 1983 and has produced scholarly work that contributes to the nursing profession and body of knowledge on international, national, state, community, and local levels. She has been Co-PI or PI on ten research projects, several of which focused on nursing students’ perception of caring online. She has received numerous awards for her scholarship, mentorship, and teaching, including the Jean Watson Award for outstanding scholarship in caring science from the International Association for Human Caring (2007-2008). Dr. Sitzman has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and has co-authored two textbooks: Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists: A Creative Beginning, 2nd Edition (2011) and Nursing History: Trends and Eras (2010).

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Caring in the Digital World

Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring asserts that caring and love transcend distance, space, time, and physicality, and it’s true. Feelings of love, kinship, friendship, grief, and compassion across time and distance confirm our basic shared experience of caring, regardless

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