Nightingale on Nursing and Health Care: Vision, Achievement and Relevance
Lynn McDonald, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Editor of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale,
Wednesday June 22, 5.30pm
City University London, Whitechapel Campus, Philpot Street, London E1 2EA
On corner of Philpot Street and Ashfield Street, nearest stations, Whitechapel and Shadwell
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Abstract
101 years after the death of Florence Nightingale, and 151 years after the founding of her school and the publication of her Notes on Nursing, it is argued that there is still much of value in her basic ideas and approach to nursing and health care, especially now with the revamping of the NHS, along with the challenges of superbugs, new technologies and pharmaceuticals.
This lecture will relate Nightingale’s vision for a new profession of nursing, the necessary education for it, and the results she achieved. Her significant involvement with St Bart’s and the London will be covered. Other topics are Nightingale’s pioneering concerns with occupational health and safety (notably hospital safety and infection control), a holistic approach to health care, evidence-based health care and the upgrading of the workhouse infirmaries.
Key contributions by Nightingale, it is argued, are of lasting importance and still relevant today.
Biography
Lynn McDonald, a Canadian, has a PhD from the University of London (London School of Economics) and is currently University Professor Emerita at the University of Guelph, Ontario. She directs the project to produce the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, of which 14 of the 16 volumes have already been published. Her short paperback, Florence Nightingale at First Hand (Continuum Publishing) came out in 2010.
McDonald is also a former Member of Parliament, and a successful public health advocate. She is the author of the Non-smokers’ Health Act, 1988, Canada’s pioneering legislation in the “tobacco wars.” She is a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (then Canada’s largest women’s organization). An environmentalist, she is co-founder of JustEarth: A Coalition for Environmental Justice, which focuses on climate change, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Climate Action network.
Before the Nightingale project, McDonald published extensively on classical social theory, including women theorists, criminology, political sociology, status of women and the environment. She has an honorary doctorate from York University Toronto).
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