The European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics is an interdisciplinary Open Access and peer-reviewed eJournal spanning the Humanities, Nursing Science, Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies. The journal is published online once a year with each edition having an individual theme and an open section that contains articles on various topics. In addition, the sections “Forum” and “Lost and Found” offer the opportunity to publish shorter articles on current debates or to present remarkable objects, texts, pictures or movies with relevance to nursing history and ethics and to discuss their significance.
The Journal is seeking contributions to
the open section
themed section
Lost and Found
Forum
Theme 2023: Suicide and its prevention: Historical and ethical perspectives in nursing
Deadline for abstracts: July 31rst, 2021 Deadline for manuscripts: February 25th, 2022
Suicide, suicidal ideation, and suicidal behaviour may be studied from several perspectives. It may be seen as an individual psychological pathology, as a family and societal issue, or as an ethical concern. Hence, many disciplines have studied suicide and its prevention. As is known from research, suicide rates increase with a time lag in the wake of crises. Accordingly, the topic is more likely to become more topical in the coming years as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the associated social and economic crisis. The special issue of the eJournal will address historical and ethical perspectives and examine how they influence the theory and the practice of nursing in both general and mental healthcare settings.
The special issue will explore the ways in which nurses have encountered and responded to suicide in mental health and general healthcare settings, in different social and historical contexts, and among particular groups, such as people with a depressive illness, people with a drug dependence, and soldiers and nurses during times of war. It will also review and examine how the nursing profession has addressed the impact of suicide on nurses themselves, and consider issues facing nurses as they respond to suicidal ideation, care for people following suicide attempts, or work with the bereaved.
Possible historical topics are:
The psychiatric and/or psychological concepts that determined the interpretation and handling of suicide and patients with suicidal ideation, and the extent to which these changed the way suicidality was and is handled in nursing
The theoretical and practical education of nurses about care for suicidal patients
The role of nurses with regard to suicidal patients and aftercare of the bereaved
The influence of care for suicidal patients on the daily work and the professional self-image of nurses
The division of labour between nurses and other professions with regard to suicidal patients
The role of religious beliefs and ethical views in dealing with suicidal patients
The support for or disciplinary measures against nurses who had been exposed to suicide
Suicidal behaviour among nurses themselves
Possible ethical questions to consider:
What tasks and responsibilities did and do nurses assume in dealing with suicidal persons and what specific ethical challenges did and do they face?
How did and do questions of nursing ethics and the attitude of nurses in dealing with suicidal patients differ, depending on their care setting, for example, the acute wards in general hospitals, psychiatry, palliative care, nursing homes?
How were and are suicidal ideations by patients in general or psychiatric hospitals and by nursing home residents discussed in the context of nursing ethics?
Which groups of patients were and are the focus of the discussion on nursing ethics with regard to suicide, for example, children and adolescents, people with mental illnesses or people with a terminal physical illness?
The aim of the special issue is to bring historical and ethical research on suicide and its prevention in nursing into dialogue with each other.
Please note the following remarks on the concept of the European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics:
The journal creates a dialogue between the history and the ethics of nursing, while providing new impulses for advancing the subfields of the history as well as the ethics of nursing. Historians are asked to include the ethical dimension of the topic into their research project; researchers interested in ethics are requested to reflect on the historical dimensions of their projects. This does not mean, however, that articles on ethics should be preceded by a historical overview in the style of a manual. Rather the latest developments and socio-political debates that have led to the current issues in the ethics of nursing should be put in their historical context and be used in the analysis. Likewise, papers on the history of nursing should address ethical questions within the historical context or refer to current issues in the ethics of nursing. The journal publishes research both on European History and the history of the reciprocal relationships and interplays of European and non-European societies.
The journal only publishes original contributions. When submitting their manuscript, authors agree that their text has not already been submitted or published elsewhere.
In der achten Folge von PflegeStandard begrüßen wir gleich zwei Gäste: Prof. Dr. Karen Nolte und Dr. Nadia Primc vom Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin in Heidelberg. Im ersten Teil dieses Interviews sprechen wir über historische Pflegefiguren, die Entwicklung der Pflege in Deutschland, das Nachwuchsproblem, die Rolle von Gewerkschaften und Streiks sowie historische Pandemien.
Am 30. November 2020 verstarb im Alter von 87 Jahren Liliane Juchli, Ordensschwester der Barmherzigen Schwestern vom Heiligen Kreuz (Ingenbohler Schwestern) und Autorin des bekanntesten Pflege-Lehrbuchs im deutschsprachigen Raum, an den Folgen einer COVID-19-Infektion.
Mit ihrem Namen eng verbunden ist das an der antiken Diätetik und an dem amerikanischen Konzept der Grundbedürfnisse angelehnte Modell der „Aktivitäten des täglichen Lebens (ATL)“, mit dem sie seit der vierten Auflage ihres Lehrbuchs im Jahr 1983 eine patientenorientierte und ganzheitliche Pflege einforderte.
Im Jahr 1962 hatte sie nach zehn Jahren pflegerischer Praxis in der Krankenpflegeschule Theodosianum am Spital Limmattal in Schlieren bei Zürich zu unterrichten begonnen. 1971 bis 1977 war Juchli Lehrerin an der Krankenpflege des Schweizerischen Roten Kreuzes in Aarau und ab 1974 auch an der ordenseigenen Pflegeschule am Clara-Spital in Basel tätig.
Im Jahr 1971 erschien beim Springer Verlag das erste Krankenpflegelehrbuch mit dem Titel „Umfassende Krankenpflege“, das Schwester Liliane Juchli zusammen mit ihrer Kollegin Schwester Beda Högger, beide Fachlehrerinnen für allgemeine Krankenpflege, publizierte. Mit diesem Lehrbuch wurde die Grundlage für das Standardwerk in der Krankenpflegeausbildung im deutschsprachigen Raum im 20. Jahrhundert gelegt, das von Pflegenden unterschiedlicher Generationen als „der Juchli“ bezeichnet wird. Begleitend zu dem Lehrbuch publizierte Liliane Juchli Fachbücher zur ganzheitlichen Pflege, mit der sie der christlichen Tradition der Pflege von Leib und Seele folgte.
Liliane Juchli hat mit ihrem „Lehr- und Lernbuch“ zur „Allgemeinen und speziellen Krankenpflege“, das in vielen Auflagen stets an die Erfordernisse der Zeit angepasst wurde, die Professionalisierung der Krankenpflege im deutschsprachigen Raum wesentlich geprägt.
Weitere Informationen zu Liliane Juchli finden Sie unter folgenden links:
Workshop 3rd and 4th September 2021 in Heidelberg, Germany (or online if the COVID-19 pandemic requires it)
Deadline for abstracts: November 30th, 2020
Deadline for manuscripts: July 31st, 2021
About the Workshop: The „European Association for the History of Nursing“ and the “European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics” invites to submit contributions to an international workshop on this topic, where precirculated papers will be discussed. Depending on the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exchange can thus take place in person or online. It is desirable that the original papers will be published in the European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics, 4th issue 2022 (see: https://www.enhe.eu/).
About the topic: The COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge of historical significance. For the first time since the 1950s and 1960s, the persuasion of being an immunized society was shaken. Diseases and pandemics were long portrayed in public history as historical events that modern scientific medicine was able to happily overcome thanks to the invention of antibiotics and vaccination programs. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the perspective on the history of epidemics; currently the question arises how we can learn from past pandemics today. At the same time, the recent discussion shows that in the context of pandemics, ethical challenges to the health care system –such as questions of distributive justice –are becoming particularly acute. Last but not least, against the background of the COVID-19 crisis, society is becoming increasingly aware of the crucial importance of nurses in the health care system. The workshop aims on the one hand to make nurses visible as actors in the history of pandemics in the various European countries, and on the other hand to discuss ethical challenges for nurses in both historical and current contexts.
Die Krankenpflege unterliegt seit einigen Jahrzehnten einem andauernden Professionalisierungsprozess. Damit geht nicht nur eine Spezialisierung einher, sondern es wächst auch das Bewusstsein der Berufsangehörigen für die historische Entwicklung des eigenen Berufsstandes. Eigenes professionelles Handeln wird zunehmend ethisch und historisch reflektiert. Da die Spezialisierung ein relativ junges Phänomen innerhalb der Pflege ist, fehlen bislang historische Studien zu bestimmten Tätigkeitsfeldern. Diese Publikation ist daher ein Schritt zur Behebung dieses Forschungsbedarfs für den Bereich der chirurgischen Assistenzberufe. Der Sammelband beinhaltet umfangreiche Quellen und beleuchtet die Arbeit der Handwerkerchirurgen der Frühen Neuzeit, der OP-Schwestern sowie der relativ neuen Berufe Operationstechnischer Assistent (OTA) und Physician Assistant. Das Buch richtet sich sowohl an Studierende, Lehrende und PraktikerInnen im Bereich der Pflege, insbesondere der chirurgischen Assistenz, als auch an Pflege- und MedizinhistorikerInnen.
