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Date:
June 11, 2004 (Friday)
Time: 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 7, LG/F, Laboratory Block, Faculty of
Medicine Building,
21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Abstract:
For over a century nursing has been one of the most portable qualifications
in the world. Ever since the Nightingale nurses moved across the
former British Empire, establishing training programmes and leading
nursing reform, nursing has been synonymous with travel and opportunity.
Over the past few decades a number of factors have come to play
that have radically altered the relationship between domestic training
and service needs and the international market of skilled immigration.
This seminar examines this shift and its implications, from Africa,
to China, to Australia, Europe and North America. It argues that
a new era of professionalisation has been initiated by the global
nursing shortage and the market economy that manages skilled labour.
The long and short term implications of this transformation in the
supply and demand of skilled nurses and the push/pull factors affecting
migration will be examined. The seminar concludes with a review
of the features and challenges of this latest wave of professionalisation
and its relationship to the market economy of health care.
Bio-sketch:
In 1997 Professor Sioban Nelson was the recipient of a three-year
postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry
and Health Sciences when she completed a history of the nineteenth-century
religious nurses in Australia, Britain and North America that discussed
their impact on the professional formation of nursing. This study
was published as 'Say little do much': nurses, nuns and hospitals
in the nineteenth century, University of Pennsylvania Press (2001).
In 1993-1996 she undertook PhD studies at the Faculty of Humanities,
Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia in which she historicised
the relationship between care of the sick, subjectivity and ethical
practice. The monograph from this work, A genealogy of care of the
sick, was published late 2000 by Nursing Praxis Press, Southsea
Hants, UK. Sioban is currently editor of the international journal,
Nursing Inquiry (published by Blackwells, Oxford, UK). In 1998 she
established the Australian Nursing History Project, a national project
to bring nursing history to the attention of the public, to conserve
historical resources and to provide information to school students
on nurses and on their contribution to Australian history. In September
2001 she was appointed Rosenstadt Visiting Professor at the Faculty
of Nursing, University of Toronto. She is currently working on a
general history of nursing, and an examination of virtue ethics
in the professions.
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