A Life in Nursing Science: A Dialogue With Dr. Marlaine C. Smith

The year 2022 is Nursing Science Quarterly's 35th year in publication, and we are dialoging with nurse theorists. We hope to uncover influences and origins of their theoretical thinking and hear about their current projects related to nursing science. In this scholarly dialogue column, we dialogue with Dr. Marlaine C. Smith, nurse theorist, Professor Emeritus, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, and president of the Society of Rogerian Scholars. Her contribution to nursing science began with her own inquisitiveness, the influence of nursing faculty and mentors, and an academic career based steeped in leadership and nursing theory. Her middle-range theory of unitary caring synthesizes her work in the science of unitary human beings and caring science.