sitzmanKathleen Sitzman, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN (emeritus)

Faculty
Watson Caring Science Institute
Distinguished Watson Caring Science Scholar

Dr. Kathleen Sitzman has co-authored seven books:

  • Oehlert, J.K, & Sitzman, K. (2024). System innovation: A holistic approach to disrupting with love and human caring.
  • Chinn, P., Kramer, M., Sitzman, K. (2022). Knowledge development in nursing: Theory and Theory and process (11th Edition). St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier.
  • Sitzman, K., & Watson, J. (2019). Watson’s guide to assessing and measuring caring in nursing and the health sciences. New York, New York: Springer Publishing.
  • Sitzman, K. & Watson, J. (2017). Watson’s Caring Science in the digital world: A guide for caring when interacting, teaching, and learning in cyberspace. New York: Springer Publishing.
  • Sitzman, K. & Watson, J. (2018). Caring science, mindful practice: Implementing Watson’s Human Caring Theory (2nd Edition). New York: Springer Publishing.
  • Judd, D. & Sitzman, K. (2014). A history of American nursing: Trends and Eras (2nd Ed.). Sudbury, MA, Jones and Bartlett Publishing. This text won the American Journal of Nursing Textbook of the Year Award in 2009.
  • Sitzman, K., Eichelberger, L.W. (2016). Understanding the work of nurse theorists: A creative beginning (3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA, Jones and Bartlett Publishing.

She has also completed and published over a hundred peer reviewed articles and 10 national studies related to various aspects of caring science in nursing. Her primary focus is to describe and promote deliberative caring in nursing and beyond.

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