by Peggy L Chinn on Could 10, 2023
The present featured ANS article is titled “Considering the ‘Bitter Rivalry’ Within the Context of European and Colonial History of Women Healers” by Adeline Falk-Rafael, PhD, RN, FAAN. This text will probably be out there for obtain without charge whereas it’s featured – an apt useful resource for the week we have fun “Nurses’ Week”! Here’s a message that Dr. Falk-Rafael offered giving some background associated to this work:
I first realized about Mary Seacole from a bunch of Caribbean nursing college students who had been in my leadership course in a BScN program at York College in Ontario, Canada. They offered Seacole to the category as a nursing chief whom they admired. Quite a lot of years later, I heard Mary Seacole spoken of in disparaging phrases at a nursing assembly so turned to her autobiographical account of her life and work. Her ebook, I consider, reveals her to have been a girl healer, offering each caring and curing providers to the folks she served, like girls had for hundreds of years earlier than her.
I’ve additionally lengthy been an admirer of Florence Nightingale. I wrote this text to honour each these nineteenth century nurses within the hopes of lessening what has been referred to as a “bitter rivalry” amongst right now’s nurses. As I mirrored on the present polarized views amongst nurses and others, I used to be reminded of the historic remedy of ladies healers, notably by medication, and puzzled whether or not the same dynamic could be at play inside nursing with regard to Mary Seacole. I draw no generalized conclusions in that regard, believing the reply is probably going advanced and completely different for every, however hope the article leads readers to think about the bitter rivalry and draw their very own particular person conclusions.