- Title
- The state of the nursing profession in the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020 during COVID-19: a nursing standpoint
- Creator
- Wilson, Rhonda L.; Carryer, Jennifer; Dewing, Jan; Rosado, Silvia; Gildberg, Frederik; Hutton, Alison; Johnson, Amanda; Kaunonen, Marja; Sheridan, Nicolette
- Relation
- Nursing Philosophy Vol. 21, Issue 3, no. e12314
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nup.12314
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The International Year of the Nurse and Midwife has not quite played out as we might have imagined. A year of celebrations was anticipated. A much-needed injection of morale boost among the worlds’ nursing population. But then, our celebrations were cut short at dawn, as COVID-19, probably the worst pandemic since the H1N1 influenza in 1918 better known as the Spanish flu, arrived. As a profession, we rallied in response, equipped with our socially constructed caring professionalism and scientific expertise. The faces of many exhausted nurses treating and caring for the sickest people populated our social and traditional media screens. And then, the insidious creep of patient, nurse, and medical professionals’ deaths around the world ‘followed; with the removal of our usual “norms,” uncertainty became the hallmark of our immediate future. On the one hand, this circumstance has amplified the public perception of nurses’ professional relevance to humanity, and on the other hand, COVID-19 has effectively rained on our party—the celebrations for the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife postponed (not that they had really reached the public). Nevertheless, there is time to pause and reflect on the state of nursing in the world in 2020, to ask ourselves how we will successfully propel our discipline forward in and beyond these adverse times, and to consider how we might mitigate our propensity to miss opportunities for taking our profession forward. How will we be ready to capture the public mood of goodwill when the celebratory international year comes around again? We suggest that a feminist standpoint theoretical lens may help us to understand our epistemological advantage to position our profession progressively for the future (Ashton & McKenna, 2020).
- Subject
- nurses; pandemic; Covid-19; nursing standpoint; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1464935
- Identifier
- uon:47154
- Identifier
- ISSN:1466-7681
- Language
- eng
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