scholarly journals Florence Nightingale: Legacy, present and perspectives in COVID-19 pandemic times

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (suppl 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Márcia Koja Breigeiron ◽  
Alessandra Vaccari ◽  
Sofia Panato Ribeiro

ABSTRACT Objective: Reflect on the influence of Florence Nightingale’s teachings to face the COVID-19 pandemic and its repercussions for the future of the profession. Methods: Descriptive reflective study, carried out between May and July 2020, through narrative review on the theme and debates between the authors. Results: The findings are divided into two chapters, namely: Environmental Theory and the teachings of Florence Nightingale in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic; and Florence Nightingale: legacy, present and perspectives. Final considerations: Florence Nightingale’s studies with the Environmentalist Theory and her teachings as a nurse are still valid, even after almost two centuries since her prelude, and should continue to serve as a foundation for the consolidation of the nursing profession.

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1.ESP) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguir Terezinha Vieccelli Donoso ◽  
Eliana Wiggers

Objetivo: Refletir sobre a teoria ambientalista de Florence Nightingale, contextualizando a enfermagem moderna frente suas origens e o desenvolvimento de sua prática. Método: Estudo reflexivo, de perspectiva histórica e que utiliza a pesquisa documental como método de investigação. Tomou por base especialmente artigos de periódicos científicos e livros clássicos sobre a história da enfermagem e suas concepções, sem limite de data de publicação. Resultados: O texto percorre desde as origens do cuidado ligadas à religiosidade, a perda da hegemonia da igreja quando as religiosas foram expulsas dos hospitais até a figura de Florence Nightingale como precursora da enfermagem moderna, destacando a Teoria Ambientalista, relacionando-a a prática de comportamentos no enfrentamento da atual pandemia. Conclusões: Discorrer sobre a história da enfermagem e sua trajetória profissional a partir de seus marcos clássicos é necessário, inclusive para a compreensão de dogmas e paradigmas que ainda são inerentes à sua prática.Descritores: História da Enfermagem; Teorias de Enfermagem; Enfermagem. TALKING ABOUT BEFORE AND AFTER THE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PERIODS: THE NURSING AND ITS HISTORICITYObjective: To reflect about Florence Nightingale's environmental theory, contextualizing the modern Nursing in view of its origins and the development of its practice. Method: A reflective study, from a historical perspective, using documentary research as an investigation method. It was based mainly on scientific articles and classic books on the history of nursing and its conceptions, without limit on the date of publication. Results: The text goes since the origins of care linked to religiosity, the lost of hegemony of the church when the nuns were expelled from hospitals until the figure Tof Florence Nightingale as a precursor of modern nursing, highlighting the Environmental Theory, relating it to the practice of behaviors in facing the current pandemic. Conclusions: To talk about the history of nursing and its professional trajectory since its classic demarcation is necessary, including the understanding of dogmas and paradigms that are still inherent to its practice.Descriptors: History of Nursing; Nursing Theories; Nursing. DISCURSANDO SOBRE LOS PERÍODOS PRE Y POST FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: LA ENFERMERÍA Y SU HISTORICIDADObjetivo: Reflexionar sobre la teoría ambiental de Florence Nightingale, contextualizando la enfermería moderna en vista de sus orígenes y el desarrollo de su práctica. Método: Estudio reflexivo, desde una perspectiva histórica, que utiliza la investigación documental como método de investigación. Se basó principalmente en artículos de revistas científicas y libros clásicos sobre la historia de la enfermería y sus concepciones, sin límite en la fecha de publicación. Resultados: El texto va desde los orígenes de la atención vinculada a la religiosidad, la pérdida de la hegemonía de la iglesia cuando las monjas fueron expulsadas de los hospitales hasta la figura de Florence Nightingale como precursora de la enfermería moderna, destacando la teoría ambiental, relacionándola con la práctica de comportamientos frente a la pandemia actual. Conclusiones: Es necesario hablar sobre la historia de la enfermería y su trayectoria profesional desde sus hitos clásicos, incluso para comprender los dogmas y paradigmas que aún son inherentes a su práctica.Descriptores: Historia de la Enfermería; Teorías de enfermería; Enfermería. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Itayra Padilha

ABSTRACT Objective: to reflect on the future of the nursing profession based on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the goals of the Nursing Now campaign and the celebration of Florence Nightingale's bicentennial. Method: reflexive analysis presented in two central topics: the first deals with Florence Nightingale-precursor of entrepreneurship in nursing; the second deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequent turnaround of the Nursing Now campaign and the strengthening of nursing as a valuable profession. Results: in the first topic, we point out the fundamental aspects of the trajectory of Florence Nightingale as the creator of modern nursing worldwide through advances, innovations, scientificity and correlation of its principles with the current reality. In the second topic, we historically reflect on the activities of Nursing in the great wars and epidemics up to the present, correlating the practices and the way nursing is constituted as a profession. We point out the goals of the Nursing Now campaign and its significance post-pandemic, as well as the expansion of nursing visibility and the constitution of a new professional identity. Conclusion: finally, we reflect on the importance of nurses pursuing their efforts to grant visibility to their expertise in all fields of work and knowledge, strengthening the identity and the professional image we want to anchor in society and maintain for the future.


Author(s):  
Ahmed Fadel Jassim Dawood

The Arab region is of great importance as an important part of the Middle East for both international and regional powers.This importance has placed it and its peoples in the suffering of international and regional interventions and has placed it in a state of permanent instability as it witnessed international and regional competition that increased significantly after the US intervention in Iraq in 2003. Accordingly, the research aims to shed light on the strategic directions of the global and regional powers by knowing their objectives separately, such as American, Russian, Turkish, Israeli and Iranian. The course aims at determining the future of this region in terms of political stability and lack thereof. Therefore, the hypothesis of the research comes from [that the different strategic visions and political and economic interests between the international and regional powers have exacerbated the conflicts between those forces and their alliances within the Arab region.. The third deals with the future of the Arab region in light of the conflict of these strategies. Accordingly, the research reached a number of conclusions confirming the continuation of international and regional competition within the Arab region, as well as the continuation of the state of conflict, tension, instability and chaos in the near term, as a result of the inability of Arab countries to overcome their political differences on the one hand and also their inability to advance their Arab reality. In the face of external challenges on the other.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Christopher Crockett ◽  
Paul Kohl ◽  
Julia Rockwell ◽  
Teresa DiGenova
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2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-594
Author(s):  
Simon Deakin ◽  
Gaofeng Meng

Abstract We consider the implications of the Covid-19 crisis for the theory and practice of governance. We define ‘governance’ as the process through which, in the case of a given entity or polity, resources are allocated, decisions made and policies implemented, with a view to ensuring the effectiveness of its operations in the face of risks in its environment. Core to this, we argue, is the organisation of knowledge through public institutions, including the legal system. Covid-19 poses a particular type of ‘Anthropogenic’ risk, which arises when organised human activity triggers feedback effects from the natural environment. As such it requires the concerted mobilisation of knowledge and a directed response from governments and international agencies. In this context, neoliberal theories and practices, which emphasise the self-adjusting properties of systems of governance in response to external shocks, are going to be put to the test. In states’ varied responses to Covid-19 to date, it is already possible to observe some trends. One of them is the widespread mischaracterisation of the measures taken to address the epidemic at the point of its emergence in the Chinese city of Wuhan in January and February 2020. Public health measures of this kind, rather than constituting a ‘state of exception’ in which legality is set aside, are informed by practices which originated in the welfare or social states of industrialised countries, and which were successful in achieving a ‘mortality revolution’ in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Relearning this history would seem to be essential for the future control of pandemics and other Anthropogenic risks.


Nursing Forum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Vaalburg ◽  
Elizabeth Wattel ◽  
Petra Boersma ◽  
Cees Hertogh ◽  
Robbert Gobbens

2021 ◽  
pp. 146735842110184
Author(s):  
I Nengah Subadra ◽  
Heather Hughes

This research note provides an account of the trajectory of Balinese tourism through 2020, focusing on government actions in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and the responses of local people. Interviews were conducted with informants in the tourism sector to assess the impact of the pandemic. The findings suggest that before April 2020, people were calm and thought that Balinese tourism may survive, albeit on much-reduced arrivals. After April, when tourism shut down completely, a new sense of pessimism became evident. Although domestic tourism began again in August, the sector was still in deep crisis at the end of the year. Although Balinese people expressed hope that the future may offer a more sustainable kind of tourism, all indications pointed to official support for a return to mass tourism.


Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1515
Author(s):  
Marissa L. Parrott ◽  
Leanne V. Wicker ◽  
Amanda Lamont ◽  
Chris Banks ◽  
Michelle Lang ◽  
...  

Modern zoos are increasingly taking a leading role in emergency management and wildlife recovery. In the face of climate change and the predicted increase in frequency and magnitude of catastrophic events, zoos provide specialised expertise to assist wildlife welfare and endangered species recovery. In the 2019–2020 Australian bushfire season, now called Australia’s Black Summer, a state government-directed response was developed, assembling specialised individuals and organisations from government, non-government organisations, research institutions, and others. Here, we detail the role of Zoos Victoria staff in wildlife triage and welfare, threatened species evacuation and recovery, media and communications, and fundraising during and after the fires. We share strategies for future resilience, readiness, and the ability to mobilise quickly in catastrophic events. The development of triage protocols, emergency response kits, emergency enclosures, and expanded and new captive breeding programs is underway, as are programs for care of staff mental health and nature-based community healing for people directly affected by the fires. We hope this account of our response to one of the greatest recent threats to Australia’s biodiversity, and steps to prepare for the future will assist other zoos and wildlife organisations around the world in preparations to help wildlife before, during, and after catastrophic events.


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