
Dr. Margaret A. Newman Distinguished Visiting Professor (DVP) 2026
Title: Working on
Speaker: W. Richard Cowling, III, RN, PhD, AHN-BC, SGAHN, ANEF, FAAN

W. Richard Cowling, III, currently the John Wymer Distinguished Professor of Caring Science at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, is known as a nursing scholar with a commitment to Rogers’ science of unitary human beings. He created the unitary appreciative nursing praxis model grounded in his work with women in despair. He has collaborated with nurses to promote innovative approaches to holistic and unitary appreciative nursing practice and scholarship throughout the United States and in Europe and Australia. He is certified as an Advanced Holistic Nurse (AHN-BC) and is a Scholar of the Global Academy of Holistic Nursing (SGAHN). Dr. Cowling collaborated in the development of the Nurse Manifest Project (A Nursing Manifesto: A Call to Conscience and Action | NurseManifest which led to the development of the Nursology website (Nursology | Honoring Our Heritage – Building Our Future). He is the editor of the Journal of Holistic Nursing and was named the Holistic Nurse of the Year in 2008 by the American Holistic Nurses Association. Dr. Cowling is a National League for Nursing-Academy of Nursing Education Fellow as well as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, Scholar.
Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. with the DVP program starting at 8:30 a.m.
Target Audience
All Nurses, Nursing Faculty, and Nursing Students.
All audiences that are interested in this topic are also invited to attend.
Learning Objectives
Coming soon!
Conflicts of Interest
Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
The planners and presenters of this NCPD activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Commercial Support: No
Noncommercial Sponsor Support: No
Off-label Product Use: This NCPD activity does not include any unannounced information about the off-label use of a product for a purpose other than that for which it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Lisa Beasley, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, AFN-C
Lisa Beasley, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, AFN-C
UTHSC College of Nursing, Memphis is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
2 NCPD credit hours will be awarded for this event, and there is no charge for the Nursing Professional Development credit hours.
In order to receive credit hours for this NCPD activity, you must:
- Be in attendance for at least 80% of the program, and
- Complete and submit the Evaluation and Verification of Attendance through the CENow Learning Management System. Instructions will be provided at the end of the DVP.
Requirements for successful completion may include participation in individual or group activities, such as discussion, exercises, practice questions, pre-/post-testing, etc.
Conflicts of Interest
Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
The planners and presenters of this NCPD activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Commercial Support: No
Noncommercial Sponsor Support: No
Off-label Product Use: This NCPD activity does not include any unannounced information about the off-label use of a product for a purpose other than that for which it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Available Credit
- 2.00 ANCC
- 2.00 Attendance

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