| Rozzano Locsin, RN, PhD, FAAN | |
| Birth Name: | Rozzano C. Locsin |
| Birth Date: | 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Philippines |
| Nationality: | Filipino/American |
| Occupation: | Theoretical Nursing: Nursing Theory, Nursing Philosophy Professor of Nursing at Tokushima University (Japan) Professor Emeritus of Florida Atlantic University (United States) Visiting Professor – St. Paul University Philippines, (Philippines); Silliman University (Philippines); Prince of Songkla University (Thailand); Mbarara University of Science and Technology (Uganda) |
| Known For: | The middle-range theory, “Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing” |
| Awards: | Dr. Locsin is a multi-awarded nurse scholar and educator. He held the Lillian O. Slemp Endowed Chair in Nursing at the University of Texas Pan American (Edinburg, Texas), and the John F. Wymer Distinguished Professor of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Florida). Dr. Locsin was a Fulbright Scholar to Uganda, and Fulbright Senior Specialist in Global and Public Health and International Development. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). |
| Website: | http://www.tokushima-u.ac.jp/med/health_science/course/kisokango/kango_gijutsu/http://nursing.fau.edu/directory/locsin/index.phphttps://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=technological%20competency%20as%20caring%20in%20nursing%20institute |
Rozzano Locsin is a Filipino American Professor of Nursing at Tokushima University, a Professor Emeritus of Florida Atlantic University, and a visiting professor at universities in Thailand, Uganda, and the Philippines.
Locsin authored Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: A Model for Practice. He edited and co-authored three more books, including A Contemporary Nursing Practice: The Weight of Knowing in Nursing.
Locsin was born in 1954 in the Philippines. A registered nurse, he is a native of Dumaguete.
Locsin earned his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Silliman University in 1976 and his MA in Nursing in 1978. He received his PhD in Nursing from the University of the Philippines in 1988.
In 1991, Locsin joined the Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, where he became a tenured Professor of Nursing. He is now a Professor Emeritus.[1] Locsin currently resides in Japan and serves as a professor of nursing at Tokushima University.
Through the Fulbright Scholar Award, Locsin 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. With Mbarara University and the Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award, he established the first community-based University Nursing Education Program.
As a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Global and Public Health, Locsin led 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 these countries.
Locsin's middle range nursing theory [2] is an interesting discussion of the correlation between hands-on patient care and the use of technology. Technology is defined as anything that makes things efficient – from basic diagnostic technologies to therapeutic practices familiar to all nurses. Specifically, he discusses the importance of understanding the need for knowing “high-tech” instruments, e.g. monitors, implants, and devices, that are a part of patient care, as these will provide opportunities for the nurse to know the patient fully as person.
Locsin's work is guided by the question asked by thoughtful nurses everywhere: How can I satisfactorily reconcile the idea of competent use of technology with the idea of caring in nursing? His theory significantly describes a practical understanding of the solution enriching the practice value of all of the general theories of nursing which are grounded in caring. Technological competency as caring in nursing informs nursing as a critical process of knowing persons’ wholeness. Locsin's theory book explores, clarifies, and advances the conception of technological competency as caring in nursing. His theory is essential to modeling a practice of nursing from the perspective of caring. It is a practical illumination of excellent nursing in a technological world.[3]