Rozzano Locsin

Locsin was born in 1954. He is a registered nurse, a native of Dumaguete City, Philippines who resides and practices his nursing profession at Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan as a Professor of Nursing. He is a Professor emeritus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida, USA. Dr. Rozzano Locsin earned his PhD in Nursing from the University of the Philippines in 1988, and his MA in Nursing and Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Silliman University in 1978 and 1976 respectively in the Philippines

In 1991, Locsin joined Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, where he was a tenured Professor of Nursing, and now a Professor Emeritus[1]

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 (a 2017 revised version is now available and published by Silliman University Press, Dumaguete City, Philippines). This theory book was translated into Japanese in 2009 and is currently available on its 3rd printing. In 2007 he co-edited the book Technology and Nursing: Practice, Concepts, and Issues, which was released by Palgrave-Macmillan Co., London, UK, and with Dr. Marguerite Purnell as co-editor, a book entitled, A Contemporary Nursing Process: The (Un)Bearable Weight of Knowing in Nursing was released in April 2009 by Springer Publishing Co.

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. 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.

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. With Mbarara University and the Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award, he established the first community-based University Nursing Education Program. As Fulbright Senior Specialist in Global and Public Health, he has continued 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 inaugural 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).

• Locsin, R. (2016) Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: A Model for Practice (rev ed). Silliman University Press, Dumaguete City, Philippines.
• 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.

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.

Nurses use and encounter technology in nearly every aspect of their profession. What does it mean to be technologically competent? What does it mean to be a caring nurse? How does technology support nursing work? How does it hinder nursing work? How can nurses care for their patients as technological advancements are introduced nearly every day? Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: A Model for Practice provides insight and answers into how nurses can express their nursing by being technologically competent. As such, Locsin sustains the understanding that being technological competent is being caring.

Locsin's work is obviously 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]