Conference Programme

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Outline Programme

Tuesday, 14th September 2010
Registration from 9.00 a.m. in the Windsor Building
Optional Pre-Conference Workshops
10.00am-12.00pm: There are two optional pre-conference workshops which will be held in the Windsor Building. Places are limited so please book these when you register.
Workshop on: Prosopography Leader: Sue Hawkins, Kingston University London.
Workshop on: Challenges and opportunities of reusing oral history evidence.
Leader: Graham Smith, Royal Holloway University of London
9.00am-12.00pm: The American Association for the History of Nursing Board Meeting will take place in the Windsor Building
12.00pm-1.00pm:Buffet Lunch in the Windsor Building.
1.00pm-1.30pm:Welcome – Windsor Building
Delegates will be called to order by Paul Wainwright of Kingston University. St. George’s University London and welcomed to the conference by:
Christine Hallett and Gerard Fealy, on behalf of European Nursing History Group
Sylvia Rinker, on behalf of American Association for the History of Nursing
Maura Buchanan, on behalf of the Royal College of Nursing, UK
Professor Fiona Ross, on behalf of the Faculty of Health and Social Care, Kingston University. St.George’s University of London.
1.30pm-2.30pm: Keynote Presentation
Mark Bostridge: ‘A Florence Nightingale for the Twenty-First Century’
2.45pm-4.00pm: Roundtable Debate – Windsor Building
Sponsored by the Royal College of Nursing
Anne Marie Rafferty will introduce and lead a debate on the question: ‘Was there a Nightingale System of training, and, if so, what influence did it have on the development of nursing in the late nineteenth century?’
Speakers:
Carol Helmstadter, Toronto, Canada: ‘Nightingale Training in Context’
Barbara Mann Wall, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA: ‘Nuns, Nightingale and Nursing’
Judith Godden, The University of Sydney, Australia: ‘The Power of the Ideal: How the Nightingale System shaped modern nursing’
Lynn McDonald, The Nightingale system of training and its influence worldwide’
4:15pm-5:45pm: Concurrent Session 1 - Windsor Building
(6 Concurrent Sessions 1a to 1f)
Session 1a: Community Nursing
Session 1b: Technology and the Patient
Session 1c: Images of Nurses and Imagining the Nurse
Session 1d: Perceptions of Midwifery
Session 1e: Nursing Skills and Nursing Labour
Session 1f: Wartime Nursing
6:30pm: Welcome Reception and Awards Ceremony - Dining room of Founders Building
Professor Peter Kopelman, Principal of St. George’s University of London, will welcome the delegates to the Reception and Awards Ceremony.
7:00pm: Barbecue - Quadrangle of Founders Building
The welcome reception and barbecue will be held in the main building and the quadrangle of Founders Building.
8:00pm-10:00pm: Film Night (To be confirmed) - Windsor Building Auditorium
The Film ‘The Lady with a Lamp’ starring Anna Neagle will be shown in the main auditorium. The event will be introduced by Professor Anne Marie Rafferty. There will be a commentary by Elisabetta Babini and the film will be followed by time for questions and debate.
Wednesday, 15th September 2010
7:00am-8:30am: Breakfast - in the HUB
Poster display on upper floor Windsor Building
8:30am-10:00am: Plenary Session - Windsor Building Auditorium
Chair: Julie Fairman
The Karen Buhler-Wilkerson Plenary on Community and Public Health Nursing
Event held in memory of Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, former board member of the American Association for the History of Nursing and recipient of the Lavinia L. Dock Award for Exemplary Historical Research and Writing, 2001 and AAHN Presidents Award 2006.
Politics and Public Health: Community Nursing, the County, and the State Rima D. Apple, Ph.D.
Historical Links to Contemporary Occupational Health Nursing Jan Maw, The Royal College of Nursing, UK
"What's in a Name?": A Public Health Nursing History
Sandra B. Lewenson, EdD, RN, FAAN
10:15am-11:45am: Concurrent Session 2 - Windsor Building
(6 Concurrent Sessions 2a to 2f)
Session 2a: Issues in Mental Health Nursing
Session 2b: Nursing and Religious Devotion
Session 2c: Borders and Boundaries
Session 2d: Politics, Ideology and the Development of Nursing
Session 2e: Epidemics and Disasters
Session 2f: Rural and Remote Nursing
11:45am-1:15pm: Concurrent Session 3 - Windsor Building
(7 Concurrent Sessions 3a to 3g)
Session 3a: Transport and Mobile Nursing in Wartime
Session 3b: Nursing, Power and Politics
Session 3c: Fighting for Professionalization
Session 3d: Northern Nursing
Session 3e: Children’s Nursing and Child Health
Session 3f: People and Ideas
Session 3g: Nursing and Place
2:30pm-4:00pm: Concurrent Session 4 - Windsor Building
(6 Concurrent Sessions 4a to 4f)
Session 4a: Panel Presentation: Towards Histories in Nursing
Session 4b: War and Practice
Session 4c: Community and Public Health Nursing
Session 4d: Professionalization
Session 4e: Global Perspectives on Nursing Education
Session 4f: Courage in Adversity
4:15pm-5:45pm:Concurrent Session 5 – Windsor Building
(Concurrent Sessions 5a to 5f)
Session 5a: Panel Presentation: Nurses on the Front Line: Representation and Autonomy
Session 5b: Maternal and Child Health
Session 5c: International Collaborations
Session 5d: Nurse Recruitment and Nursing Education
Session 5e: Nursing and Women’s Health
Session 5f: Nursing Leadership
6:45pm-7:45pm:Book Launch – in the HUB
To be led by Sioban Nelson
7:45pm-10:30pm:Conference Dinner and Auction – in the HUB
Thursday, 16th September 2010
9:00am-10:00am:Keynote Presentation - Windsor Building Auditorium
Chair: Arlene Keeling–
Dr Afaf Meleis: ‘Importance of an International perspective and international collaboration in both history and policy’
10:15am-11:45am:Concurrent Session 6 – Windsor Building
(6 Concurrent Sessions 6a to 6f)
Session 6a: Rural and Remote Nursing
Session 6b: Mental Health Care on the Margins
Session 6b: Mental Health Care on the Margins
Session 6c: Wartime Nursing Practice
Session 6e: Public Health
Session 6f: Radical and Progressive Nurses
11:45am-12:30pm:Lunch – Windsor Building ground floor reception area
12:30pm-2:30pm:Concurrent Session7 - Windsor Building
(7 Concurrent Sessions 7a to 7g)
Session 7a: Nursing and Identity
Session 7b: The ‘Dark Side’ of Nursing and Midwifery
Session 7c: Transitions and Influences in Education
Session 7d: Colonial Practice and Postcolonial History
Session 7e: Methodology
Session 7f: Education and Socialisation
Session 7g: Nursing Skills Revisited
2:30pm:Closing Remarks: Sylvia Rinker – Windsor Building Auditorium
3:00pm:Tea will be available
3:30pm-4;30pm:The American Association for the History of Nursing Membership Meeting – Windsor Building
3:30pm-4:30pm:The Advisory Board Meeting of the UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery - Windsor Building
4:30pm-5:00pm:The Meeting of the European Nursing History Group - Windsor Building

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