Survival, Soft Skills, and Sociology

In <i>Creative Nursing 2026</i>, we explore the multifaceted relationship between nursing and sociology, a field rich with opportunities for critical analysis and theoretical development. Our first two issues represent distinct yet interconnected approaches that illuminate the social dimensions of health, illness, and health-care delivery. This first issue, Sociology of Nursing, focuses on the nursing profession itself as a social phenomenon, examining nursing's professionalization process and its position within the broader health-care system. Different facets of soft skills in nursing care, and caring as a foundational component of human survival, as well as the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, are strongly present in this journal issue.