From clinical placement to simulation: the future of nursing education?
Eva-Maria Willis, Jamie Smith, and Iris Epstein discuss the increasing use of simulation training in nursing, its implications, and the possibilities of a posthuman perspective.
A critical posthuman call to make ‘person-centered care’ messier
Jamie Smith, a practicing nurse, brings a critical posthuman approach to ‘person-centre care’- urging us to question the assumptions that underly the widely employed framework. As a nurse, privilege is made perceptible to me
Poetry, epistemic justice and exploring the potential of connectivity
Reflecting on her four-decade nursing career, Sue Spencer uses poetry to explore justice, values and change. I read an earlier version of this poem at an event I organised that “celebrated” 40 years since
Attending to Humanities in Nursing Education
Jessica Vaughn argues for the use of the humanities in nursing education, urging fellow practitioners to empower patients through the medical humanities. As I approach my final year as a student nurse and reflect
Figuring the Nurse
Michaela Clark on stereotypes, nostalgia, and present day health inequalities in artist Sue Greeff’s personal & pictorial history of nursing in South Africa.
‘Some Nurses’: The Value of Women’s Work
Jemima Short argues that a nineteenth-century lithograph found in Wellcome Collection speaks to inequalities in health care work today.
Care-crafting and creative nursing: HIV/AIDS histories and the rise of person-centred care
Laura Savidge, mental health nurse and co-author of the forthcoming study “Nursing a ‘Plague’, A History of HIV & AIDS Care, 1981-1996”, writes: ‘And I can remember seeing what was – he loved chocolate – and
‘Locating Health: Regional Historical Perspectives on Human Care, 1800-1948’: Workshop Review
Richard Bates reviews ‘Locating Health: Regional Historical Perspectives on Human Care, 1800-1948, a one-day workshop part of ‘Florence Nightingale Comes Home for 2020’ project. This one-day workshop, held at the University of Nottingham on