Past Caring Pandemics Ep1

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:38:41 +0000

#COVID19 | Royal College of Nursing.

In our very first episode of Past Caring, a podcast from the Royal College of Nursing Library and Archive, Frances Reed explores the essential role that nurses have played in tackling pandemics throughout history.

SUBTITLES ARE AVAILABLE: Make sure you've clicked the [cc] icon for captions on the bottom right of the video

Frances chats to: infection control expert Rose Gallagher who is supporting the COVID-19 response today; historian Mark Honigsbaum on the role nurses played in the 1918 'spanish flu' pandemic; Jason Warriner, a nurse who remembers all too well the emergence of HIV and AIDS in the 1980s; and artist Mary Beth Heffernan, who created an innovative approach to humanising hazmats suits during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.

Links:

Pandemic! Nursing 100 years of infection online exhibition (featuring Hampstead Military Hospital Nurses, 1918 image)
www.rcn.org.uk/library-exhibitio…/pandemic-nursing

Mary Beth Heffernan PPE Portrait project: ppeportrait.org/

The Pandemic Century by Mark Honigsbaum www.penguin.co.uk/books/112/11....2052…80753558287.htm

Image: Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803 (Wellcome Collection) wellcomecollection.org/works/geepqy6x

RCN Fair Pay for Nursing campaign www.rcn.org.uk/get-involved/ca....mp…r-pay-for-nursing

Please subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@RCNonline
Website: https://www.rcn.org.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theRCN
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/royalcollegeofnursing
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thercn
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/compa....ny/royal-college-of-

#COVID19