Practice Center

The overall purpose of the Neuman Systems Model (NSM) Practice Center is to identify individuals who have applied the concepts of the NSM to their Practice Setting/Center. The ultimate purpose of the Practice Center is to Translate Research into Practice (TRIP).  Both of these levels of practice implementation need to be theory guided for evidence-based practice for best outcomes.  To be inducted as a NSM Practice Fellow the theory guided approach needs to include and identify NSM concepts applied to practice. The framework may be an integrated theoretical framework such as having a theoretical component, e.g., keeping the environment clean to decrease infection based on Nightingale and then NSM prevention interventions to decrease infection.  There are other examples such as in the Fawcett, Watson, Neuman, & Hinton-Walker (2001) article: On Nursing Theories and Evidence in the Journal of Nursing Scholarship and in Breckenridge (2011) The NSM and Evidence-Based Nursing Practice in the the Neuman Systems Model Book (5^th ed) by Neuman and Fawcett.

Please contact Dr. Diane Breckenridge for further information regarding the Practice Center at breckenridge@lasalle.edu

Neuman Systems Model Practice Awards

The aim of the Neuman Systems Model Practice Center is to further the development of the NSM as a professional practice model. To facilitate this aim, the International NSM Trustees group is funding the following Practice Center Awards. 

Translation into Practice Fellow Award Grant is a $1000.00 biennial award. Its purpose is to support a practitioner whose work has led to or will lead to the translation of research into practice (TRIP).

The Practice Center Fellow Awards fund up to 5 biennial $100 Practice Awards. The purpose of this award is to recognize an outstanding contribution in the use of the NSM concepts as applied to the practice setting/center as a practice model.