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The European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics (ENHE) creates a dialogue between the history and the ethics of nursing while providing new impulses for advancing the subfields of the history as well as the ethics of nursing.

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Call for Abstracts (Eighth Issue 2026): To become a nurse

2025-03-31
Theme 2026: To become a nurse Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2025
Deadline for manuscripts: November 30, 2025

Models of nursing education and training in ethics can vary widely across Europe, depending on how nursing was organized in each country. The path to academization varied greatly and the different manifestations of denominational nursing traditions also had far-reaching consequences. This special issue will focus on these historically-specific developments in nursing education. The aim is to identify and discuss differences in developments, societal and structural conditions. A central topic is the formation of professional and ethical standards for the profession. The question of how to become a “good” nurse has a long history in nursing debates and continues to have relevance today. Even in the early days of nursing training, it was a matter of course that the development of the nurse’s character was as important as the practical and theoretical training. In modern nursing training, the development of an ethical attitude plays an important role alongside the teaching of ethical foundations. The eighth themed issue of the European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics is dedicated to nursing education from a historical and ethical perspective.

 

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Vol. 6 (2024): Nursing and Economics
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Economic contexts have shaped the working conditions of nurses in various ways throughout history. Increasing marketisation in the healthcare sector has been noted and discussed since the 1960s, in particular in terms of the social and human costs for both nurses and patients. The articles in this special issue situate the marketisation of nursing in different social contexts, differentiate it from the principle of sound financial management in nursing, and thus contribute to the historicisation of the currently politically charged concept of marketisation. The articles focus on the transformation of nursing care in the second half of the 20th century and examine both the opportunities for nurses and the consequences that resulted from the adoption of market-oriented practices in the field of nursing.

Figure: Advertisement 1966 in the nursing journal "Die Agnes Karll-Schwester" 20 (1966), 1, p. 197.

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