Capturing Nursing History With Creative Writing: Two Exemplars

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-146
Author(s):  
Jacqueline K. Owens
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Nursing History ◽  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
History Of

Florence Nightingale formally documented much of the early history of the nursing profession, a goal that remains important today to guide our practice. Many nurse scholars have published detailed accounts of historical research. Story-based narratives can be especially effective to describe the contributions of individual nurses in a way that resonates with nurses and lay readers. Two nurses, Terri Arthur and Jeanne Bryner, have successfully disseminated stories of nurses through creative writing. This article describes their journeys to capture nursing history using historical narrative, poetry, and reflective prose.

scholarly journals Foundations of the aspect of health care and two hundred years since the birth of Florence Nightingale 1820-1910

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Damir Peličić
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Council ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 19Th Century

Nursery has existed throughout history and it dates back to the very beginning of humankind. It was mentioned in church books and other written texts but not as a skill or science, but as an occupation reserved for the members of monastic orders, and also for women, that is, mothers, and nuns. First, nursing was an occupation, then a skill, but at the end of the 20th century, it became a scientific discipline. Florence Nightingale is certainly one of the most significant women in the history of nursing, medicine, and society in general because she is the pioneer of the nursing profession that has continuity up to nowadays. She was born on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy and died on August 13, 1910, in London. Florence Nightingale worked as a nurse, organizer, researcher, statistician, reformer, writer and a teacher. She reformed nursery and public health. In 1860, she established the school for nurses within St. Thomas' Hospital and she took care of every protégé. In spite of all obstacles, which she was faced with, and the unenviable position of women in the 19th century, she made a huge move that changed the context of this profession forever. She had a huge influence on the Swiss philanthropist Henry Dunant (1828-1910), who was the founder of the Red Cross. In 1867, the International Council of Nurses proclaimed that her birthday would be the International Nurses Day. She was the first woman who was awarded the Medal of virtues. In 1908, she was conferred the Order of Merit by King Edward. She wrote more than 200 books and the Pledge.

Resurgence of an Ancient Idea? A Study on the History of Microfinance

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Zainuddin ◽  
Ida Md Yasin
Keyword(s):  
Developed Countries ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Simple Idea ◽  
The Poor ◽  
History Of Evolution ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
Developing And Developed Countries

Microfinance revolution, as it was frequently called, did not happen overnight. Microfinance has a long history of evolution, from a simple idea to a global movement, through which it came into the present shape. But much of its history is yet to be written systematically. In fact, there is no historical research so far from the perspective of microfinance. Little is thus known about the early history of some of the oldest forms of lending to the poor. The current study offers a historical look at microfinance and aims at documenting the evolution of modern microfinance institutions. The object of the research is to recognize the historical depth of microfinance and give a picture of how this idea emerged and developed overtime. The study reveals that moneylending to the poor was always in existence in various forms in different periods of time in both developing and developed countries. It has a long history, particularly in Asia but also in Africa and Europe.

scholarly journals To the Study of the Historical Narrative of Peter the Great’s Time. “Shestvia Journal” in the Funds of the Manuscripts Department of the RNL

2021 ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Alexey Alekseev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Initial Period ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Existence Results ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
National Library ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
Peter The Great ◽  
History Of ◽  
Independent Work

Introduction. The “Shestvia (Procession) Journal” is one of the most common monuments of the historical narrative of the Peter the Great era. This monument has been published many times, but still does not have a scientific publication, and its handwritten tradition has practically not been studied. Methods and materials. This work examines the manuscripts of the “Shestvia Journal” in the funds of the Department of Manuscripts of the National Library of Russia. Analysis. The study of the literary “convoy” of historical collections about Peter the Great makes it possible to establish that the “Shestvia Journal” was assigned a strictly defined place in the narrative about the initial period of the reign of Peter the Great: in 42 collections it was directly connected with the texts of the “Notes” by A.A. Matveev, and only in eight lists had a separate existence. Results. Observations on the manuscripts of the “Shestvia Journal” held in the collections of the Manuscripts Department of the National Library of Russia allow us to hypothesize that the journal was created not as an independent work, but as part of a cycle of texts devoted to the early history of the reign of Peter the Great. This cycle, along with the magazine, included “The Legend of the Conception and Birth of... Emperor Peter the Great”, as well as the work of Count AA. Matveev on the rifle riots of 1682 and 1698.

The Nursing Profession

Cinema, MD ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Eelco F.M. Wijdicks
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Nursing

This chapter explores the different roles of nurses in the history of cinema- from the kind Florence Nightingale to the wicked Nurse Ratched. It is appropriate to ask whether a portrayal is inspiring or off-putting or merely cheap amusement. Nurses in cinema were sweetened and idealized in the late 1930s and 1940s. Films about nurses focused on romantic flings with doctors. Other depictions were misogynistic caricatures and shallow fantasies. Filmmakers seldom portrayed the nursing profession as disciplined and committed because this is not cinematic. It was more interesting to have the nurse look attractive and be courted. However, there are notable exceptions. This chapter recognizes the major role of nursing in the history of medicine and provides context to well-known feature films.

scholarly journals Best Practices in Historical Studies of Nursing and Health (1999-2017)

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 973-978
Author(s):  
Amanda Nicácio Vieira ◽  
Stéfany Petry ◽  
Maria Itayra Padilha
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Institutions

ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the best practices thematic in dissertations and theses produced by a research group of history of nursing and health from 1999 to 2017. Method: a documentary socio-historical research with a qualitative approach. Documentary sources were dissertations and theses using content analysis. Results: 30 dissertations and 20 theses were found with compliance with the objective. Best practices refer to care and assistance practices, the history of institutions and organizational entities, and the implementation of nursing practices in each institution. Educational process addresses best practices in support groups, educational institutions and specialty construction. Other studies bring the milestones of the nursing profession, confrontation situations and social reflection regarding vulnerabilities. Final considerations: the studies address best practices in nursing that go through several settings in the attempt to raise problems and promote scientific research to support nursing actions in care.

An Exploration of the Nature of Caring Relationships in the Writings of Florence Nightingale

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 225-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra J. Wagner ◽  
Bonnie Whaite
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Caring Relationships ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
Caring Relationship ◽  
Carative Factors ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Latent Content

The purpose of this qualitative, historical field study was to identify the nature and attributes of caring relationships as depicted in the writings of Florence Nightingale. Latent content analysis was the methodology used for the discovery and analysis of words, ideas, and themes from selected Nightingale works. Five themes were identified that represented a caring relationship: attend to, attention to, nurture, competent, and genuine. These themes are congruent with Nightingale’s threefold concept of nursing. Watson’s carative factors were used to cross-validate the results. The findings of this study indicate that the phenomenon of caring relationships in nursing has been a part of our professional language since Victorian times. Historical research provides a sense of connectedness to nursing’s past and contributes to the ongoing education of nurses and further development of the nursing profession.

Labor Protest in Morocco

2018 ◽  
pp. 51-72
Author(s):  
Matt Buehler
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Core Material ◽  
The Political ◽  
History Of ◽  
Labor Protest ◽  
The Arab Spring

This chapter is divided into four sections that outline the origins of Morocco’s labor unions and detail their involvement in the country’s uprisings of 2011. First, the chapter surveys the historical foundations of labor unions in Morocco, focusing on the colonial and postcolonial periods. This early history demonstrates that Morocco’s unions have a history of inciting violence to advance their agenda, especially in urban areas, which have historically served as centers of opposition to the monarchy. Second, the chapter sets the baseline to show that, like in Tunisia and Egypt, the period preceding the Arab Spring was marked by increased labor unrest in Morocco. Third, it examines union mobilization during the height of popular protests against Morocco’s regime, from February 2011 to June 2011. Finally, the chapter closes by discussing what demands the unions secured from their activism and reviews the key implications from the political historical narrative. The empirical record bears out the argument that labor unions used unrest connected to Morocco’s “Arab Spring” to realize some of their core material demands.

scholarly journals APPIAN’S ILLYRIKE: THE FINAL STAGE OF THE ROMAN CONSTRUCTION OF ILLYRICUM

2016 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
DANIJEL DŽINO
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Final Stage ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Early History ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional Histories

Appian’s Illyrian book (Illyrike) was originally intended to be just an appendix to his Macedonian book and today remains the only extant ancient work dealing with the early history of Illyricum which is preserved in its entirety. In this short work Appian puts together different local and regional histories in order to create a unified historical narrative and determines the historical and mythological coordinates of Illyricum inside the ancient world. This paper will discuss Illyrike in the context of the Roman construction of Illyricum as a provincial space, similar to some other regions in continental Europe such as, for example, Gaul or Britain. They were all firstly created through the needs of Roman political geography and later written into literary knowledge through the works of ancient history and ethnography. This paper will argue that Appian’s Illyrike represented the final stage of the Roman construction of Illyricum from an imaginary to a provincial space, which was the point of its full coming of age as an integral part of the ancient world and the Roman Empire.

Some early history of replica techniques for electron microscopy

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 1076-1077
Author(s):  
Robert M. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Optical Microscope ◽  
Early History ◽  
Bulk Materials ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Reflected Light ◽  
History Of ◽  
Electron Microscopes

By 1940, a half dozen or so commercial or home-built transmission electron microscopes were in use for studies of the ultrastructure of matter. These operated at 30-60 kV and most pioneering microscopists were preoccupied with their search for electron transparent substrates to support dispersions of particulates or bacteria for TEM examination and did not contemplate studies of bulk materials. Metallurgist H. Mahl and other physical scientists, accustomed to examining etched, deformed or machined specimens by reflected light in the optical microscope, were also highly motivated to capitalize on the superior resolution of the electron microscope. Mahl originated several methods of preparing thin oxide or lacquer impressions of surfaces that were transparent in his 50 kV TEM. The utility of replication was recognized immediately and many variations on the theme, including two-step negative-positive replicas, soon appeared. Intense development of replica techniques slowed after 1955 but important advances still occur. The availability of 100 kV instruments, advent of thin film methods for metals and ceramics and microtoming of thin sections for biological specimens largely eliminated any need to resort to replicas.

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