11 March 2014

Nipissing University welcomes Dr. Lynn McDonald, to campus on Tuesday March 18, for two special lectures, titled From Florence Nightingale to Today: Putting Patient Care at the Heart of Nursing at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in room H104.

Dr. McDonald is Professor Emerita at the University of Guelph, and Director of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale (16 volumes, 2001-12). She has served as a Member of Parliament and authored the Non-smokers’ Health Act in 1988, recognized as Canada’s ground breaking anti-tobacco legislation. She is the author of many books and articles on women theorists, status of women, and criminology. Dr. McDonald is also an active environmentalist.

Here is an abstract on the lecture:When Nightingale’s nursing school opened in 1860, nursing was not a recognized profession, and most “nurses” were, in effect, hospital cleaners. It was her vision to make patient care the central feature of professional nursing.  With antibiotic resistant pathogens now on the rise, it is time to look at how nurses provided the crucial care to get patients through life-threatening crises. Nightingale’s principles of nursing are still valid, as is her “environmental” theory of health and her pioneering example of “evidence-based” health care.

These special lectures are part of the activities of Nipissing’s Undergraduate Research Conference, March 21-22.

For more information about this event or the Undergraduate Research Conference, please email: cftl@nipissingu.ca