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<jats:p> This essay includes an update of the first essay for this column, published in the first issue of 2012. The current essay includes various definitions of nursing as a discipline, and definitions of science, nursing science, and Parsesciencing, as well as a discussion of the work of nurse scientists. The Nursing Now initiative is identified as a way in which the contributions of the work of nurse scientists can be highlighted on a global scale. </jats:p>