DR.

ROZZANO LOCSIN
“LOCSIN THEORY”
BIOGRAPHY

 Dr. Rozzano Locsin earned his Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing degree from
the University of the Philippines in 1988, and his Master of Arts in Nursing
and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Silliman University in 1978 and
1976 in the Philippines. He joined Florida Atlantic University, Christine E.
Lynn College of Nursing in 1991 where he is a tenured Professor of
Nursing.
 Dr. Locsin's research and scholarly works concerning technology and caring
in nursing converge on the theme "life transitions in human health." Four
books attest to this thematic focus. In 2001, he edited the book Advancing
Technology, Caring, and Nursing published by Auburn House, Connecticut,
USA; In 2005, his middle range theory Technological Competency as
Caring in Nursing was published by Sigma Theta Tau International Press; in
2007 a co-edited book Technology and Nursing: Practice, Concepts, and
Issues was released by Palgrave-Macmillan Co., London, UK, and with Dr.
Marguerite Purnell as co-editor, the book entitled, A Contemporary Nursing
Process: The (Un)Bearable Weight of Knowing in Nursing was released in
April 2009 by Springer Publishing Co.
 Dr. Locsin's scholarly and creative works focus on using the arts as healing
modalities, and the arts as aesthetic expressions in studying nursing. His
passion for the arts in nursing earned him the Edith Moore Copeland
Excellence in Creativity Award from Sigma Theta Tau International Honor
Society of Nursing in 2003.
 His international commitments are illustrated in continuing global
initiatives. Through the Fulbright Scholar Award, he developed the first
Masters program in Nursing in Uganda while researching the phenomenon
"waiting-to-know" and the lived experiences of persons exposed to patients
who died of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever. With Mbarara University and the
Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award, he established the first Community-
based University Nursing Education Program
 Currently, as Fulbright Senior Specialist in Global and Public Health, he
continues to lead collaborative research studies advancing the development
of models of nursing practice in Uganda, Thailand, and the Philippines. He
maintains Visiting and Honorary professorial appointments in nursing in the
Philippines, Uganda, and Thailand.

 He was the first recipient of the Lillian O. Slemp Endowed Chair in Nursing
at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texas in 2007. In
August 2009, he was the first recipient of the John F. Wymer, Jr.
Distinguished Professor in Nursing at Florida Atlantic University. In 2006,
 Dr. Locsin was inducted as Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing
(FAAN).
 Other awards attesting excellence in his work include the Outstanding
Sillimanian Award and the Outstanding Paulinian Award in the field of
Nursing Education from renowned Philippine schools. The Julita V. Sotejo
Medallion of Honor was awarded by the University of the Philippines
College of Nursing Alumni Association International in Los Angeles,
California.

LOCSIN'S THEORY: TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE AS

CARING IN NURSING
1. Technological competency in nursing fosters the recognition and realization
of persons as participants in their care rather than as objects of care
2. The idea of "participation in their care" stems from active engagement; the
nurse enters the world of the one nursed, through available appropriate
technologies, attempting to know the nursed more fully in the moment
3. In this practice, the assumption is understood that the one nursed allows the
nurse to enter his or her world so that together, they may mutually support,
affirm and celebrate each other's being
4. In this relationship of the "knower" and the "known", technology provides
the efficiency and the value that marks their mutual and momentary reality

LOCSIN'S ASSUMPTIONS
1. Persons are whole or complete in the moment
2. Knowing persons is a practice process of nursing that allows for continuous
appreciation of person moment to moment
3. Nursing is a discipline and a professional practice
4. Technology is used to know persons fully in the moment
LOCSIN: KNOWING THE OTHER PERSON
1. Technological competence: assists the nurse in acknowledging the person as
a focus of nursing; using technology competently to compliment or assist the
nurse in knowing the patient in the moment
2. Caring in nursing: authentically knowing the person in the moment, to the
extent to which they wish to be known
3. Human beings as persons: knowing the patient in the moment as whole and
complete persons, despite their condition
ex. Amputees, hysterectomy, etc. these people are still whole or complete as
human beings, even if using technology to live ex. pacemaker, dialysis machine,
prosthetic limbs

KEY POINTS FROM LOCSIN'S THEORY

1. "The nurse can know the person fully only in the moment"
2. "It is not entirely possible for the nurse to fully know another human being,
except in the moment and only if the person allows the nurse to know
him/her by entering into the other's world"
3. "The expectation is that the nurse is to use multiple ways of knowing
competently in using technologies in order to know the other fully as a
person"

RISKS WITH TECHNOLOGY IN NURSING

1. Doctor Google - patients diagnosing or misdiagnosing themselves based on
information from the Internet
2. Confidentiality - the widespread availability of private information
Example: staff/patients posting on social media, systems hacking, laptops
stolen
3. EMR - Permanent, nationally accessible health record. Does physiotherapist
need to know about STI you had in 2009
TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE KEY POINTS
SUMMARIZED
1. Technological competency is seeing people as participants in their care
2. The Idea of participation in their care stems from an active engagement; the
nurse enters the patient's world through technology in an attempt to know
the patient fully in the moment
3. Assumption: The patient consents to the nurse entering his world so that
together, they may mutually support, affirm and celebrate each other's being
4. Technology provides efficiency and value that marks mutual and momentary
reality between the knower and the known

CRITIQUE
Relationship Between Structure & Function
Clarity
 Locsin define a Technological competence as caring in nursing
Diagram of Theory

Simplicity/Complexity
 Locsin Theory are simple using on Knowing framework nursing care

Tautology/Teleology
 Locsin theory have no different to their theoretical framework

CIRCLE OF CONTAGIOUSNESS
Teaching
 Philosophies of Science Grounding Nursing
 Introduction to Nursing as Discipline and Profession
 Nursing Research
  Arts as Healing Modalities in Nursing
 Philosophical & Theoretical Foundations of Advanced Practice Nursing
 Advancing Technology, Caring, and Nursing

Research Interests
 Experiences of Caring for/Being Cared for
 Technology and Caring in Nursing
 Music Listening and its Effects on Painful Situations
 Waiting-to-know as phenomenon in nursing
 Design and evaluation of holistic nursing practice projects
 Expressions of caring in nursing: Arts and Aesthetics.
 Curriculum design and development.
 Lived experiences of older persons.
 Study Abroad Programs - Uganda, Thailand, Japan, the Philippines.

Recent Publications
Books:
 Matua, A.G. and Locsin, R. (2015). Like a moth to a flame: Ebola and the
culture of caring in Sub-saharan Africa. In Ray, M. (2015). Transcultural
Caring Dynamics, F.A. Davis, Co., New York, NY (ebook).
 Locsin, R. (2015). Rozzano Locsin's Technological competency as caring in
nursing: Knowing as process and technological knowing as practice. In
Smith, M., & Parker, M. (eds). Nursing Theories and Nursing Practice (4th
ed), New York, F.A. Davis, Co. (p, 451-462).
 Locsin, R. and Purnell, M. (2009) A Contemporary Nursing Process: The
(Un) Bearable Weight of Knowing in Nursing. Springer Publishing, New
York.
 Locsin, R. Barnard, A., and Locsin, R. (2007) Technology and Nursing
Practice. Palgrave Macmillan Co., Ltd. UK.
 Locsin, R. (2005) Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: A
Model for Practice. Sigma Theta Tau International Press, Indianapolis,
Indiana.
  Locsin, R. (2001). Advancing Technology, Caring, and Nursing.
Connecticut: Auburn House, Greenwood Publishing Group. Editor.
(Released June 30, 2001).

Honors/Awards

 Academic Excellence Award, Philippine American Society, 2010

 Balik Scientist (Returning Scientist) Program, Department of Science &
Technology, Philippines 2009
 University Research of the Year - Professor, Scholarly & Creative Works,
FAU 2006
 Outstanding Alumni Award - Lifetime Achievement in Nursing Education
St. Paul University of Dumaguete, Dumaguete City, Philippines 2004
 Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award Center for International Exchange of
Scholars, Washington, D.C. 2004-2006
 Edith Moore Copeland Award for Excellence in Creativity (Founders
Award) Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing -
Indianapolis (37th Biennial Convention - November 1-5) 2003
 Julita V. Sotejo Medallion of Honor: Lifetime Achievement Award
University of the Philippines, Nursing Alumni International Inc., Los
Angeles, California 2003
 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Florida Atlantic University, Boca
Raton, Florida 2003
 Fulbright Scholar Award Florida Center for International Exchange of
Scholars, Washington, D.C. 2000-2001

USEFULNESS
Practice
 ex. Amputees, hysterectomy, etc. these people are still whole or
complete as human beings, even if using technology to live ex.
pacemaker, dialysis machine, prosthetic limbs
Research
 Technological competency in nursing fosters the recognition and
realization of persons as participants in their care rather than as
objects of care

Education
 Technology is used to know persons fully in the moment

Administration
 Have no specifics order to allow the Locsin framework or model just
using the device procedure

EXTERNAL COMPONENTS
 Personal values
 Congruence with other professional values
 Congruence with social values
 Social significance