Patricia D'Antonio

Nurses in war

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The future in the past: Hildegard Peplau and interpersonal relations in nursing

Researchers, educators and clinicians have long recognized the profound influence of the mid-twentieth century focus on interpersonal relations and relationships on nursing. Today, in nursing, as well as in medicine and other social sciences, neuroanatomy, neurobiology and neurophysiology have replaced interpersonal dynamics as keys to understanding human behavior. Yet concerns are being raised that the teaching, research and practice of the critical importance of healing relationships have been overridden by a biological focus on the experiences of health and illness. As a way to move forward, we return to Hildegard Peplaus seminal ideas about the transformative power of relationships in nursing. We propose that Peplaus formulations and, in particular, her seminal Interpersonal Relations in Nursing can provide direction. We do not propose that her formulations or her book be simply transposed from the 1950s to todays classroom and clinic. But we do believe that her ideas and writings are dynamic documents containing concepts and derived operations that can be brought to life in clinical practice. Finally, we explore Peplaus transformative idea that nursing is, at its core, an interpersonal process both to acknowledge an idea that has shaped our past and can guide us into our future.

Histories of nursing: The power and the possibilities

This article challenges the dominant paradigm of understanding the history of nursing as only that of relative powerlessness. By moving away from the stance of educators deeply concerned about the inability of the profession to gain control over entrance requirements and into the realm of practice, we use examples from our own work to discuss alternate histories of power. We acknowledge historical circumstances of invisibility and gender biases. But we argue that when we look at the history of practice, we see as much evidence of strength, purpose, and successful political action. Finally, we call for an acknowledgement of the rich and complex nature of the many different histories we can tell in nursing. And we suggest that an admitted inability to advance in one area of the discipline has not meant an inability to move in others.

Reimagining Nursing's Place in the History of Clinical Practice

This work posits how medical history might be conceptualized if nurses and nursing history was used as the analytical lens. Nursing is seen not as a separate part or subsection of medical history, but rather one that is deeply embedded in the relationships and social order of clinical practice. Nursing is an analytical category in and of itself. By approaching nursing as such a category, we enlarge “new notions of historical significance” to encompass personal, political, public, and private activities that constitute medical experiences.

Addressing sexual health behaviour during emerging adulthood: a critical review of the literature

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES In this critical literature review, we examine evidence-based interventions that target sexual behaviours of 18- to 25-year-old emerging adult women. BACKGROUND Nurses and clinicians implement theory-driven research programmes for young women with increased risk of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections. Strategies to decrease transmission of HIV and sexually transmitted infections are rigorously evaluated and promoted by public health agencies such as the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While many interventions demonstrate episodic reductions in sexual risk behaviours and infection transmission, there is little evidence they build sustainable skills and behaviours. Programmes may not attend to contextual and affective influences on sexual behaviour change. DESIGN Discursive paper. METHODS We conducted a conceptually based literature review and critical analysis of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions best-evidence and good-evidence HIV behavioural interventions. In this review, we examined three contextual and affective influences on the sexual health of emerging adult women: (1) developmental age, (2) reproduction and pregnancy desires and (3) sexual security or emotional responses accompanying relationship experiences. RESULTS Our analyses revealed intervention programmes paid little attention to ways age, desires for pregnancy or emotional factors influence sexual decisions. Some programmes included 18- to 25-year-olds, but they made up small percentages of the sample and did not attend to unique emerging adult experiences. Second, primary focus on infection prevention overshadowed participant desires for pregnancy. Third, few interventions considered emotional mechanisms derived from relationship experiences involved in sexual decision-making. CONCLUSIONS Growing evidence demonstrates sexual health interventions may be more effective if augmented to attend to contextual and affective influences on relationship risks and decision-making. Modifying currently accepted strategies may enhance sustainability of sexual health-promoting behaviours. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE This study provides nurses and public health educators with recommendations for broadening the content of sexual health promotion intervention programming.

History counts: How history can shape our understanding of health policy

Historians of nursing can inform and provide perspective and context to the discipline and to policy makers. This article provides several examples of the interplay of history and health policy debates across time and place. From issues of the nursing workforce to discussions about the skill level needed to safely care for patients and the issues of practice boundaries, history provides evidence for shaping our understanding of and engagement with health policy. History offers a way to understand the present and think about the future. It illustrates a critical perspective for both action and advocacy.

Thinking about place: researching and reading the global history of nursing

Este estudo considera o lugar como uma categoria de analise. A enfermagem como uma disciplina pratica e a historia da enfermagem como um campo de conhecimento. Ambos se situaram em uma maior area de autoconsciencia global e os estudiosos estao se deslocando para alem de seus paises e estados como contexto primario para a investigacao historica. Ao mesmo tempo, o trabalho da enfermagem e, tem sido e sempre sera um ato privado e intimo. Este estudo considera dois desafios para aqueles interessados em explorar como a historia da enfermagem pode considerar esta justaposicao do global e do local. O primeiro e conceitual e considera as maneiras de explorar os estudos nacionais da historia da enfermagem mais sistematicamente. O segundo e estrutural e explora como podemos construir um corpo de conhecimentos e um quadro de estudiosos que atravessem a linguistica convencional, barreiras culturais e criem uma vibrante comunidade de discussao e dialogo.En este estudio se considera el lugar como una categoria de analisis. La enfermeria como una disciplina practica y la historia de la enfermeria como un campo de conocimiento. Ambas categorias estan situadas en un area mayor de conciencia global, donde los investigadores se desplazan mas alla de sus paises y estados, estableciendo un contexto primario para la investigacion historica. Al mismo tiempo, el trabajo de la enfermeria es, ha sido y siempre sera un acto privado e intimo. Este estudio considera dos retos para los interesados en explorar como la historia de la enfermeria puede considerar esa yuxtaposicion de lo global y lo local. El primer reto es conceptual y considera las maneras de explorar los estudios nacionales de la historia de la enfermeria de manera mas sistematica. El segundo es estructural y explora como podemos construir un corpo de conocimientos y un grupo de investigadores que trasciendan el lenguaje convencional, las barreras culturales y creen una vibrante comunidad de debate y dialogo.

Working on the "jagged edge": reflections on Thorne and Chinn.

Sally Thorne’s and Peggy L. Chinn’s thoughtful and provocative papers have set the standards quite high for our ability as editors to engage in “global conversations.” Sally asks us to self-consciously examine the ways in which we unwittingly perpetuate postcolonial assumptions and power relationships; and Peggy wants us to practise humility as we seek to understand and respect “centres” or perspectives that are not our own. As the editor of Nursing History Review, I have long thought about the ideas and practices that construct a “global conversation,” and their papers have given me much more about which I need to think. The Review is a small, highly specialized journal that — for the 21 years of its existence — has deliberately (and somewhat successfully) sought an interdisciplinary and international audience. But we have reached only some of our colleagues across the globe. My remarks, however, are framed by my background as a historian as much as they are by that as an editor. And, like Sally’s and Peggy’s, my work is steeped in colonial and postcolonial paradigms. But, as a historian, I am also seeing how the notions of hierarchical and hegemonic power relationships within these paradigms are beginning to fracture. We are realizing that those labelled “others” within these paradigms see their own sources of power in adopting particular Western ideas and that their adoption is less a capitulation than a careful calculus. We are also seeing how there is rarely wholesale or uncritical adoption of particular Western practices — particular times and places lend themselves to careful reconstructions of “best practices.” And we now understand how the “other” affects the “metropole” — that there is a diffusion of ideas and practices. I am thinking particularly of Jonathan Cole’s work on nursing and midwifery in colonial Senegal (Cole, in press). The French colonial government developed maternal and public health policies that trained Senegalese women in Western nursing and midwifery. But Senegalese women participated because their education allowed them to challenge the patriarchal hierarchy in which they lived and to empower themselves with a new identity as a professional. What does this mean to us in our role as editors? I was urged to be provocative — so I will be. First, I think it means we must unpack the implicit assumption that the process of knowledge production and disCJNR 2013, Vol. 45 No 2, 23–25

Pensando acerca del lugar: investigando y leyendo la historia global de la enfermería

Este estudo considera o lugar como uma categoria de analise. A enfermagem como uma disciplina pratica e a historia da enfermagem como um campo de conhecimento. Ambos se situaram em uma maior area de autoconsciencia global e os estudiosos estao se deslocando para alem de seus paises e estados como contexto primario para a investigacao historica. Ao mesmo tempo, o trabalho da enfermagem e, tem sido e sempre sera um ato privado e intimo. Este estudo considera dois desafios para aqueles interessados em explorar como a historia da enfermagem pode considerar esta justaposicao do global e do local. O primeiro e conceitual e considera as maneiras de explorar os estudos nacionais da historia da enfermagem mais sistematicamente. O segundo e estrutural e explora como podemos construir um corpo de conhecimentos e um quadro de estudiosos que atravessem a linguistica convencional, barreiras culturais e criem uma vibrante comunidade de discussao e dialogo.En este estudio se considera el lugar como una categoria de analisis. La enfermeria como una disciplina practica y la historia de la enfermeria como un campo de conocimiento. Ambas categorias estan situadas en un area mayor de conciencia global, donde los investigadores se desplazan mas alla de sus paises y estados, estableciendo un contexto primario para la investigacion historica. Al mismo tiempo, el trabajo de la enfermeria es, ha sido y siempre sera un acto privado e intimo. Este estudio considera dos retos para los interesados en explorar como la historia de la enfermeria puede considerar esa yuxtaposicion de lo global y lo local. El primer reto es conceptual y considera las maneras de explorar los estudios nacionales de la historia de la enfermeria de manera mas sistematica. El segundo es estructural y explora como podemos construir un corpo de conocimientos y un grupo de investigadores que trasciendan el lenguaje convencional, las barreras culturales y creen una vibrante comunidad de debate y dialogo.

Pensando sobre o lugar: pesquisando e lendo a história global da enfermagem

Este estudo considera o lugar como uma categoria de analise. A enfermagem como uma disciplina pratica e a historia da enfermagem como um campo de conhecimento. Ambos se situaram em uma maior area de autoconsciencia global e os estudiosos estao se deslocando para alem de seus paises e estados como contexto primario para a investigacao historica. Ao mesmo tempo, o trabalho da enfermagem e, tem sido e sempre sera um ato privado e intimo. Este estudo considera dois desafios para aqueles interessados em explorar como a historia da enfermagem pode considerar esta justaposicao do global e do local. O primeiro e conceitual e considera as maneiras de explorar os estudos nacionais da historia da enfermagem mais sistematicamente. O segundo e estrutural e explora como podemos construir um corpo de conhecimentos e um quadro de estudiosos que atravessem a linguistica convencional, barreiras culturais e criem uma vibrante comunidade de discussao e dialogo.En este estudio se considera el lugar como una categoria de analisis. La enfermeria como una disciplina practica y la historia de la enfermeria como un campo de conocimiento. Ambas categorias estan situadas en un area mayor de conciencia global, donde los investigadores se desplazan mas alla de sus paises y estados, estableciendo un contexto primario para la investigacion historica. Al mismo tiempo, el trabajo de la enfermeria es, ha sido y siempre sera un acto privado e intimo. Este estudio considera dos retos para los interesados en explorar como la historia de la enfermeria puede considerar esa yuxtaposicion de lo global y lo local. El primer reto es conceptual y considera las maneras de explorar los estudios nacionales de la historia de la enfermeria de manera mas sistematica. El segundo es estructural y explora como podemos construir un corpo de conocimientos y un grupo de investigadores que trasciendan el lenguaje convencional, las barreras culturales y creen una vibrante comunidad de debate y dialogo.