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Valerio Dimonte (Università di Torino), Alessandra Rossi Ghiglione (CCW, SCT Centre), Antonella Enrietto (Teatro Popolare Europeo) and Teresa Siena
Alice Gamba (CCW)
2020 was the bicentenary year of the birth of Florence Nightingale, the founding figure of modern nursing and a woman of great innovation, and it was also the year in which the Covid 2019 pandemic profoundly disrupted the planet with extraordinary impacts on people’s lives and health and on healthcare and care systems.
In this terrible year, the nursing professions have been placed under exceptional stress, paying a high price in terms of physical health and emotional wellbeing, and many newly graduated students have found themselves on an unimaginable front line. Women, who are the majority in the profession, have suffered a double burden at work and in their private family lives. A listening process for this experience has been initiated with a view to individual psychological support, but a choral narrative was lacking, one that could give unified voice to a profession in which to recognize oneself and creatively process the experience.
In the year of Covid, healthcare professions were perceived in a new light by citizens for the first time, yet a balanced social narrative was never produced: from heroes to enemies, from sudden recognition of their vital role in public health back to indifference and oblivion.
If there is any silver lining to the Covid pandemic, it is the chance to reconsider Health as a common good to which healthcare professionals and citizens contribute, each with their own responsibilities and resources.
Art and Theatre, in particular, have made an important contribution to this change, constructing those common narratives in which professional figures and citizens recognize themselves in their roles and share inspiring values. Florence Nightingale, a woman in a society of men, was in this sense a figure of great significance, capable of changing a concrete, professional and cultural paradigm of care, and inspired the birth of other great innovators, including Henry Dunant, the creator of the Red Cross.
Caring 2020 – Florence Nightingale e la sfida dell’assistenza infermieristica (Florence Nightingale and the challenges facing nursing care) brought about the return of a foundational myth, allowing us to examine and even challenge it in the context of the Covid era, and to create a common vision of care and humanity.
The Caring 2020 – Florence Nightingale e la sfida dell’assistenza infermieristica narrative project aimed to offer the Order of Nurses and interested partners a social narrative inspired by the figure of Nightingale, which recounts the identity and challenges of the nursing profession today – including those related to Covid but not only.
The project was carried out in three stages:
The Caring 2020 project was made possible thanks to the following partners:
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