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Page 2 • Nevada RNformation March, April, May 2021 NNA Mission Statement The Nevada Nurses Association promotes professional nursing practice through NNA’s Call to Serve continuing education, community service, nursing leadership, and legislative activities to advocate for improved health and high quality health care for citizens of Nevada. NNA State Board of Directors Mary D. Bondmass, PhD, RN, CNE Mary.bondmass@unlv.edu ..............President Nicki Aaker, MSN, MPH, RN, CNOR, PHCNS-BC naaker@aol.com .......Vice President Sherrie Sherk-Olson, BSN .........................................Secretary Glenn Hagerstrom, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, CNE ghagersrom@unr.edu .........Treasurer Arvin Operario ...........................................Director at Large Christa Secord, MSN, FNP-BC cjsecord@gmail.com ................Director at Large Norman Wright, RN, BSN, MS info@f441.com ...................Director at Large Darlene Bujold, BSN, RN darlene.cbrn@gmail.com ...............President, District 1 Margaret Covelli, DPN, RN Margaret.covelli@umcsn.com ..........President, District 3 Editorial Board Managing Editor, Linda Bowman, RN, lbowman@nvnurses.org Print Editor, Kathy Ryan, MSN, RN-BC Dear NNA Member, NNA invites you to share your talents, insight, and experience to help shape the future of nursing and healthcare. Consider becoming a candidate for a volunteer position with Nevada Nurses Association! NNA has been the voice for nursing in Nevada for over 100 years. The purposes of NNA are to advance and uphold excellence, integrity, and autonomy in the practice of nursing, and to advocate for accessible, quality health care for all. Serving on an NNA board allows you to actively play a part in activities that impact nursing practice and health care. Mary D. Bondmass, PhD, RN, CNE Tracey Long PhD, APRN-BC Lisa Pacheco, MSN, RN Bernadette Longo, PhD, RN, FAAN Vicki Walker DNP, BS RN Are you interested in submitting an article for publication in RNFormation? Please send it in a Word document to us at lbowman@nvnurses.org. Our Editorial Board will review the article and notify you whether it has been accepted for publication. If you wish to contact the author of an article published in RNFormation, please email us and we will be happy to forward your comments. www.nvnurses.org Published by: Arthur L. Davis Publishing Agency, Inc. Goals of NNA: • Promote and uphold excellence and integrity for the profession of nursing • Educate and advocate for accessible, affordable quality healthcare for clients/ consumers • Monitor the evolving role of the professional nurse The following positions are open for the 2021 year. • State Level: a candidate for a Director (three-yr term) • Northern Nevada - District One: seeking candidates for the positions of President-elect (one-year. Then moves into President position for two-year term) Vice President, and multiple Directors-at Large (all two-yr terms) • Southern Nevada - District Three: Treasurer (two-yr term) and two Directors at Large • ANA Membership Assembly (June) in Washington DC: seeking candidates for one Representative & one alternate (one-yr terms). To fully represent the goals and mission of NNA, candidates should actively participate in at least one Committee. This position only serves in the summer for the Assembly, expenses are covered. • Nominations Committee: seeking three candidates (one-yr terms) What are the responsibilities of board members? The Boards meet monthly for ~90 minutes over the internet for reports and discussion. Board members are instrumental in carrying out the goals and objectives of NNA. All of which benefit Nevada nurses. Officers may be asked to volunteer to assist in committee work. How do I become a candidate? Self-nominate~! Click on link below to submit your candidacy form. Candidacy Forms Thank you for considering serving the nurses of Nevada - you are appreciated! If you'd like more information, please contact NNA Director of Operations Linda Bowman at lbowman@nvnurses.org.
March, April, May 2021 Nevada RNformation • Page 3 The President’s Message continued from page 1 trouble’ by either submitting an op-ed for the next RNFormation or making a comment online. Below is a verbatim article from Nursing Clio, an open access, peer-reviewed, collaborative blog that presents the case against Nightingale and a link to where you can join the conversation. Given that the ANA and the WHO have continued the Year of the Nurse into 2021, I believe it is appropriate for us to carry on the conversation that gained so much attention with Nightingale’s 200th birthday celebration. The Racist Lady with the Lamp By Natalie Stake-Doucet SOURCE: Nursing Clio 11/5/2020 Nursing historiography is centered on whiteness. Even worse, nursing history revolves largely around a single white nurse: Florence Nightingale. This, unfortunately, doesn’t mean nurses understand who Nightingale was. There are nurse historians doing incredible and diverse work, but in general, nursing, both as a profession and as an academic discipline, promotes a view of Nightingale based in a culture of white supremacy rather than historical facts. Here, I make explicit Nightingale’s role in British colonial violence by analyzing some of her writings on the British colonies. This history allows us to better discuss the consequences of her legacy in nursing. Indigenous traditions offended the “cleanliness” ideal of Victorian Britain. Miasma theory conveniently supported British supremacy and was a pillar of public health until the end of the 19th century. More importantly, it was a political weapon to destroy Indigenous health and wellness traditions, as it labelled anything non-British or non-Christian as “filthy.” It is inaccurate to assume that when Nightingale speaks of “cleanliness” it is somehow detached from its ideological roots. When she speaks of cleanliness, filth, or foulness, there is always an implicit Christian bias. She could never have supported any form Indigenous health practices because they were not based in Christian values. Natalie Stake-Doucet is a registered nurse, activist, and PhD candidate. She is passionate about nursing history, and she studies the socio-political structure of hospitals in relation to nurses and nursing work. You can add your opinions and start some ‘good trouble’ for yourself at the link below https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/178101 or https://meaww.com/year-of-the-nurse-2020-florencenightingale-racist-anti-feminist-legacy-allegations-innursing-200 An opposite view and a response from the Nightingale Society can be found at the link below. http://nightingalesociety.com/published-articles/ defending-florence-nightingales-reputation-kai-tiakinursing-new-zealand/ Some other references are below to help you with your journey into what may be ‘good trouble’ for you too. ‘A Letter From Florence Nightingale’. (1924, 1 July). Kai Tiaki: The Journal of the Nurses of New Zealand, Vol 17(3), p123. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/ KT19240701.2.35 Rodgers, J A. (1985). Nursing Education in New Zealand, 1883 to 1930: The Persistence of the Nightingale Ethos. MA thesis, Massey University, Palmerston North. https://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/6274 McDonald, L. (Ed.). (2004). Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care – Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 6. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp 183-5. Nightingale, F., & National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. (1865). Note on the aboriginal races of Australia: a paper read at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, held at York, September, 1864. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t07w6pn5d Waitangi Tribunal. (2019). Hauora – Report on Stage One of the Health Services and Outcomes Kaupapa Inquiry. Lower Hutt: Legislation Direct. Retrieved from https:// forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_ DOC_152801817/Hauora%20W.pdf Please send comments to this article to the RNFormation Editor (lbowman@nvnurses.org), and let us know if we can publish your comment, Respectfully yours, Nightingale and Colonialism What is rarely discussed in nursing history is Nightingale’s racism and her political role in the genocide of Indigenous people under British rule. She counseled many key political figures and her writings on the subject show that she was a staunch supporter of British colonialism, even with the knowledge of the death and destruction left in its wake. She believed Indigenous lives were a small price to pay for the expansion of the British Empire. Although some of her contemporaries recognized the brutality of the colonial system, Nightingale believed imposing British culture to be necessary. Anything else, she believed, “would be simply preserving their barbarism for the sake of preserving their lives.” 1 This racist statement by Florence Nightingale is one of many. Thanks to digitization efforts, her writings are now accessible, and it’s easy to find sources that reveal Nightingale’s racism. She was steadfast in her belief of the supremacy of white Christian culture. By her own accounts, Nightingale considered Indigenous peoples to be inferior, and the British state to be a “civilizing” force. The quote above is from Nightingale’s Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals, published in 1863, a report commissioned by the Colonial Office of the British government. In it, she concluded that the high death rates of Indigenous people in colonial schools and hospitals reflected the haste of British authorities to assimilate them. She felt assimilation should be more gradual in order to minimize the death toll, but she had no issue with the death toll itself: “Every society which has been formed has had to sacrifice large proportions of its earlier generation to the new conditions of life arising out of the mere fact of change.” 2 In the report, Nightingale defended the deaths of Indigenous children in the Canadian precursors to residential schools: “There is nothing in the school education as described in the returns, sufficient to account for the special prevalence of tubercular diseases in these schools. The causes must probably be looked for in the close foul atmosphere of the native dwelling.” 3 Her comments on the Canadian situation were indicative of her larger position: that the deaths of Indigenous people was due to habits of Indigenous people themselves, and that British rule catalyzed a process of “decay” already in motion. Victorian “Cleanliness” and Miasma Theory as Ideological Weapons It is important to understand the meaning of cleanliness within the Victorian era and for Nightingale. Cleanliness was a synonym for purity, and the Victorian rituals attached to it came with a sense of godly supremacy. 4 It is beyond the scope of this article to discuss the ideological roots of the term, but it went hand in hand with the miasma theory of disease, which Nightingale believed until the end of her life. Miasma theory held that bad smells and filth generated disease. Filth was not just physical, it was also moral. For example, under miasma theory, Nightingale believed sex workers embodied evil that spontaneously generated disease. As Nightingale explained: “When we obey all God’s laws as to cleanliness,…, health is the result. When we disobey, sickness.” 5 One of the few pictures of Nightingale contemporary, Mary Seacole, (above photo by an unknown author in the public domain) Mary Bondmass, Ph.D., RN, CNE President, Nevada Nurses Association Visit nursingALD.com today! Search job listings in all 50 states, and filter by location and credentials. Browse our online database of articles and content. Find events for nursing professionals in your area. Your always-on resource for nursing jobs, research, and events.
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