Conference Report
Friday, November 5, 2021
Sponsored by the Nursing Archives Associates,
History of Nursing Archives,
Howard Gotlieb Archival Center, Boston University Libraries
This symposium focused on the far-reaching influence of Florence Nightingale as the founder of modern nursing and healthcare reformer. An overview of Nightingale’s bicentenary observance activities in the UK, including some of the response to the pandemic will be given in the first keynote. Presentations will describe Nightingale’s personal experiences as she received inspiration and a “call to care for the ill,” her role in “district nursing” (forerunner of community health nursing), and Nightingale’s principles guiding nursing care of the military in the Crimea and how they inform modern combat trauma nursing practice. Nightingale’s understanding of health, her influence on nursing theory, education for the practice of nursing and how her foundation pertains to nurses and the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals will be presented.
The Nursing Archives Associates express gratitude to the instructional technology staff of the Boston University School of Public Health for all aspects of the implementation of this symposium.
Program
• 10:00 a.m.
• WELCOME REMARKS
Sarah Pasternack, MA, RN
President, Nursing Archives Associates
FROM SCUTARI TO IRAQ: NIGHTINGALE’S ENDURING CONCEPTS OF COMBAT
TRAUMA NURSING
Maria K. Tackett, EdD, CEN, CTRN, CCRN-k
Nursing Director for Professional Practice and Trauma, Hartford Hospital
11:00 a.m.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, WILLIAM RATHBONE AND THE CREATION OF THE FIRST PROFESSIONAL DISTRICT NURSING MOVEMENT IN THE UK
Susan Cohen, PhD
Independent Scholar, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
11:20 a.m.
QUESTIONS
Moderator: Judy A. Beal, DNSc,RN, FAAN, FNAP, Board Member, Nursing Archives Associates
Professor and Dean Emerita, Simmons University, Academic Consultant
11:40 a.m.
BREAK
12:45 p.m.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: HEALTH IS NOT A TRIFLE
Mary Ellen Doona R.N., Ed.D. (Ret’d.)
Independent Scholar
1:05 p.m.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON THE NILE, 1849-1850: A FOOTHOLD FOR THE FUTURE
Karen J. Egenes, RN, EdD, CNE
Associate Professor Emerita, Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago
1:25 p.m.
INDIVIDUAL TO GLOBAL: NURSES AND THE 17 UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Barbara M. Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HWNC-BC
Holistic Nurse Pioneer, Nurse Theorist, Florence Nightingale Scholar
1:45 p.m.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE: 200 [201] YEARS LATER
Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD, ScD (hon),RN, FAAN, ANEF
Professor, Department of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts
2:05 p.m.
See Paper and Slides in Word and PowerPoint files
QUESTIONS, SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
Moderator: Judy A. Beal, DNSc, RN, FAAN, FNAP, Board Member, Nursing Archives Associates
Professor and Dean Emerita, Simmons University, Academic Consultant