scholarly journals Are We Walking to the Future or to the Past? A Retrospective Analysis of Professional Nursing during the Pandemic of 2020, Dating back to the Crimean War, 1853-1856

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. p102
Author(s):  
Christine M. Silverstein
Keyword(s):  
Retrospective Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Transformational Leaders ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
White House ◽  
Pivotal Moments ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
Professional Nursing ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Commander In Chief

This retrospective analysis, based on facts derived from contemporary news media, videos, and journal articles, scrutinizes a White House televised ceremony that celebrated National Nurses Day on May 6, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and the #MeToo movement. On the surface, it appears that nurses were honored by the President, but a deeper look beneath reveals otherwise. This historian explores two pivotal moments during the ceremony that changed the focus from a celebration to a campaign event, which occurred when a female nurse practitioner stepped out of line to posit that personal protective equipment was “sporadic” and President Trump’s reaction to it. Although counterintuitive, queries arise as to whether the Commander-in-Chief celebrated professional nursing or denigrated it, as nurses kowtowed to authoritarian rule and unwittingly abandoned the time-honored principles of facts, science, and caring in professional nursing extant since its inception. Retrospectively, documents from archives are examined and the biographies of two transformational leaders, Hildegard Peplau and Florence Nightingale. These questions are asked: In 2020 how would they uphold their high standards and teachings today that set the stage for the evolution of professional nursing? What role would therapeutic interpersonal interactions of caring in nursing play in the 21st century?

scholarly journals Problems of Ethics and Scholarship in Nursing Publications

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Mary Seacole ◽  
Heavy Work ◽  
High Standards

This article relates the flagrant instances of misinformation on Florence Nightingale, the major founder of professional nursing, in 2020, the bicentenary of her birth, and 2021. It notes the new trend to “pair” Nightingale with another supposed “nursing pioneer,” who was a businesswoman and generous volunteer, Mary Seacole, but who never portrayed herself as a nurse. The article goes on to cite the promotion of misinformation on the two by no less than the Queen, in her Christmas message of 2020, and by her heir, the Prince of Wales, on 12 May 2021, Nightingale’s birthday and International Nurses Day. The most extreme example of misinformation is that of the prince, who claimed joint status for Seacole with Nightingale in achieving the sanitary reforms in the Crimean War that saved large numbers of lives. Unlike Seacole, Nightingale played a role in these reforms, but credited the doctors and engineers of the Sanitary Commission who did the heavy work of renovation. The article calls for high standards of ethics and scholarship in nursing and health care publication. Health authorities, such as Britain’s National Health Service, should be the source of reliable information, especially in a pandemic. Misinformation on mere “historical” matters, not clinical, is not acceptable. Diversity and inclusion are valid goals of any health care system, but should be pursued with integrity. The article introduces a fine Black nursing leader, Kofoworola Abeni Pratt, who is ignored and yet should be celebrated for her contributions to nursing both in England and her home country, Nigeria.

Obama White House photos limited by access policies

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Smith Dahmen ◽  
Erin K. Coyle
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Critical Function ◽  
White House ◽  
The Press ◽  
Access Policies ◽  
Depth Interviews

Through surveys and in-depth interviews with members of the White House News Photographers Association, this study indicates that visual journalists understand the value of the watchdog role and that current White House practices interfere with this critical function. Limiting news media access and attempting to control the visual narrative undermines the ability of the press to perform the watchdog function that is critical for democratic self-governance.

President Roosevelt’s Secret Hypertensive Heart Disease

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bruce Fye
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Congestive Heart Failure ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Severe Hypertension ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Hypertensive Heart Disease ◽  
White House ◽  
Fourth Term ◽  
Commander In Chief

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s health was a factor in the 1944 election. Presidential press secretary Stephen Early and White House physician Ross McIntire worried that Thomas Dewey might win if voters learned that Roosevelt had severe hypertension and had an episode of congestive heart failure. Three weeks before the election, Mayo cardiologist Arlie Barnes visited the Bethesda Naval Medical Center where he learned that some physicians suspected that Roosevelt had a “serious heart ailment.” When Barnes returned to Rochester he mentioned this to a few friends. Word of this conversation reached Early, and FBI agents interrogated Barnes and other Mayo physicians two weeks before the election. During the campaign’s closing days, White House insiders orchestrated events designed to showcase a healthy commander in chief. Stifling rumors about Roosevelt’s health was part of their strategy to defeat Dewey. Less than three months into his fourth term, Roosevelt had a stroke and died.

WRITING AS FEMALE NATIONAL AND IMPERIAL RESPONSIBILITY: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S SCHEME FOR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL REFORMS IN ENGLAND AND INDIA

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chieko Ichikawa
Keyword(s):  
Crimean War ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
The Crimea ◽  
Popular Subject ◽  
The Ideal

Florence Nightingale, who becamea national heroine after the Crimean War, was the most popular subject in hagiographical collective biographies of women during the mid- and late-1850s. However, her life can be regarded as a resolute resistance to conformity with the ideal of womanhood in the Victorian era. She recognised the chasm between her popularity and reality:Good public! It knew nothing of what I was really doing in the Crimea.Good public! It has known nothing of what I wanted to do & have done since I came home. (Private note from 1857; Nightingale,Ever Yours177–78)This statement implies the resistance to the misrepresentation of her, which is indicative of her inner struggle to search for a means to express her vision.

‘A disastrous affair’; the Franco-British attack on Petropavlovsk, 1854

Polar Record ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (141) ◽  
pp. 629-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. R. Stone ◽  
R. J. Crampton
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Crimean War ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Commander In Chief ◽  
The Town ◽  
Naval Force ◽  
Naval Base

AbstractThe battle of Petropavlovsk in August/September 1854 was a significant though little known victory for the Russians during the Crimean War. Petropavlovsk, i n Kamchatka, was attacked by a Franco-British naval force intending to destroy Russian ships within the harbour and to render the port unusable as a naval base. Allied plans were disrupted by the death ofthe commander in chief, the British Admiral Price, just before the action was joined. A bombardment on 31 August badly damaged the harbour defences and, if followed up, would probably have resulted in success. After a gap of three days, the allies mounted a landing in the rear of the town which was, after severefighting, repelled by the Russians. After this defeat, the squadron dispersed t o ports on the other side of the Pacific.

Trump win will test US allies and institutions

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Market Volatility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
White House ◽  
Unilateral Action ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
Legislative Agenda ◽  
The Us ◽  
Commander In Chief

Significance With Republicans retaining their House and Senate majorities too, Trump is in a position to take unilateral action via his powers as chief executive, battle with Republican leaders and the Democratic minority to set the legislative agenda, challenge his political adversaries for leadership of the party, and define Washington's global role for the next four years as commander-in-chief. However, investors, foreign capitals, corporates and the US public uncertainly await further clarification of the unorthodox candidate's policy programme after discounting his electoral viability and campaign promises. Impacts Senate Democrats under probable Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are likely to adopt a confrontational stance against the White House. Election-related market volatility may slow the pace of US interest rate rises next year. Further US disengagement from the Syrian civil war is likely, to the benefit of President Bashar al-Assad. Puerto Rico Governor-elect Ricky Rossello is unlikely to find allies in Washington for his pro-statehood agenda.

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