Raising the alarm on authoritarian rule c/o Life&Arts FT

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I can think for myself!  Yes.   But, are you allowed to think?	EVERYBODY         TO KENMURE STREET^
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1	Mr Nobody against Putin

^It's a bit more 'local' - I think!

 

My source: Nicolas Rapold, Raising the alarm on authoritarian rule. Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 28-29 March 2026, p.12.

Previously: 'power' : 'politics' : 'authoritarian'

ICN - Definition of 'Nursing' & 'a Nurse'

Renewing the Definitions of
 'Nursing' and 'a Nurse'  

 Defining 'nursing' and 'a nurse' has always had a place in both theory and practice. This is one thing that can bridge the theory-practice gap, but still needs to be explained and made sense of. Especially when the values that underpin our definitions are challenged by social, political, physical and attitudinal change.

 

Of course see the report for the latest definitions. 

Previously:

'nursing' : 'nurse' : 'definition' :

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PERSON-CENTRED CARE  Ack. Identity of Others Balance Subjective - Objective  Care for and Compensate for Emotional and Psychological Needs Knowledge and (Interpersonal) Skills Emotional labour, Compassion, Courage Self-Awareness - Competence (recognise limits), When/If stressed :: Act for Safety of All, Please See your Strengths too! Commitment Active Listening - Attention Mentor Students - Newly Qualified Nurses Philosophical stance Ethics & Values Exercise Emotional Literacy Collaborate when possible Supoport Self Care improve Health Literacy

PERSON-CENTRED CARE Care for and Compensate for Physical Needs  Skills and Knowledge of Sciences, Technology, Devices, treatments, drugs, procedures, processes Seek Evidence-based Care and Record Observational Acuity Situational Awareness Anticipate Needs Foster SELF CARE - 'See' Strengths, Recovery' - and PLANETARY HEALTH Be aware of Information Disorder Assure Parity of Esteem Document Care - Gather Data for Reporting/Research/Outcomes Consider Patient's/Individual's Journey - Health Career

PEOPLE-CENTRED - Inclusive Seeing Others and Promote Wellbeing of Colleagues inc. All Students/Newly Qualified Professionals Understand (your) Community  as Resource & needing Care Recognise Family - Friends but ensure Confidentiality Exercise Empathy & Rapport Seek Public Involvement Public Safety & Protection Maintain Professional Confidentiality See Person as a 'Whole' - Integrate Care Advocate for Social Justice Exercise Duty of Candour Seek Psychological Safety for all Team Work Relationally within/across  Communities of Practice - Foster Therapeutic Relationships Envision Patient at 'Home' in the Community - Seek re-housing placement as early as possible

SERVICE-CENTRED CARE Advocate for Equity, Equality in Access to Care and Universal Health Coverage Seek to Assure Safety of Self, Colleagues  & Public (1st Rule of 1st Aid) esp. in Conflict Environments - Refugees/Migrants Nursing - Profession - Registered Protected Occupational Title Seek Supervision & Feedback Manage Services Seek to Improve Quality - Monitor Policy Security of Care Environment, Data, Record, Confidentiality (Vigilance across the domains*) Practice as per Professional Standards,  Code of Conduct Ack./work to reduce impacts of ALL Determinants of Health to increase Sustainability Accountability - Transparency Continuing Professional Development Revalidation of Registration/Licensing Advocate for Future Generations - Humanity Population & Biospheric Health

*This is why nursing, being a nurse is 'emotional labour'.

Hodges' model can be embedded within the SPIRITUAL, as per cultural and situational context.

P.S. By the way, if anyone asks - you can just be 'a nurse'.

White, J., Gunn, M., Chiarella, M., Catton, H., Stewart, D., (2025). Renewing the Definitions of 'nursing' and 'a nurse'. Final project report, June 2025. International Council of Nurses.
https://www.icn.ch/resources/nursing-definitions/current-nursing-definitions

iConference 2025 & new Community Informatics Research Network list

Dear CI colleagues,

I am writing with two updates.

First, this listserv* has been moved to the iSchool at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: https://lists.ischool.illinois.edu/lists/info/ciresearchers. To post a new message to this mailing list, please use the following email address: ciresearchers AT ischool.illinois.edu

I'd like to thank the Metropolitan New York Library Council for hosting this list during the past several years. We moved the list to the iSchool at Illinois where it will be supported in the years ahead.

Second, the new iSchools Community Informatics group will meet during the on-site portion of the 2025 iConference at Indiana University on Wednesday 19 March 2 PM-3:30 PM local time in Bloomington, Indiana. To learn more about the iConference, please visit the conference website: https://www.ischools.org/iconference

Dr. Khalid Hossein has generously agreed to help lead the iSchools Community Informatics group *virtual* session on Tuesday 11 March 9:30 PM-11:00 PM local time in Bloomington, Indiana. Khalid and I are hoping to provide opportunities for everyone to engage virtually in both sessions of the conference.

Please stay tuned for more information about the conference.

Thank you,
Colin

—
Colin Rhinesmith, Ph.D.
Pronouns: he/him
Visiting Associate Professor

Director, Digital Equity Action Research (DEAR) Lab
School of Information Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

crhines AT illinois.edu

ischool.illinois.edu | publish.illinois.edu/digitalequity

 *My source, with my editing. PJ

Consultation: CHANGE NHS

 
Our NHS is broken, but not beaten. Together we can fix it.    [ c/o https://change.nhs.uk/en-GB/ ]

The NHS has been there for us for over 76 years. But to make sure the NHS is here for the next 76 years, doing all it can to support the health of everyone, we need your help.

We want to have the biggest ever conversation about the future of the NHS.

It doesn’t matter whether you have a lot or a little to say. Your views, experiences and ideas will shape a new 10 Year Health Plan for England. 

This is open to everyone. If you are a member of the public or someone who works in health and care in England, 'Start Here', to tell us how the NHS needs to change.

If you are contributing as a representative of an organisation, complete the organisation questionnaire. This is an early opportunity to share your insights as we begin an extensive programme of engagement to develop the 10 Year Health Plan. 

If you register your email address, we will stay in touch to seek your views as the 10 Year Health Plan develops.

[video no longer available]

'change' in Hodges' model

The NHS and people's health is more than 

a machine, more than a mechanistic thing 

that if broken can be fixed.

By definition you cannot be 'inclusive'
if you do not achieve balance
with the humanistic; and the
values of humanity and
 the spiritual as per context.

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purposes person-centredness personalised care experiences continuity mental state; mental health attitudes - mindset expectations (public education) my health literacy (all of them: education)	processes (care inc. 'writing' records, 'gates' access) demographically-driven care  define 'success' - metrics - data utilise evidence peak CO2 peak obesity physical health: chronological age - pathological age encourage self-care to support sustainability
social care social attitudes child support - support for families proven practices that delivers community as resource community: homes for living in - not profiting from Public involvement:  #NHSCHANGE #CHANGENHS Protect / Create green spaces for outdoor play	funding, finance, budgets, economics POLICY: FROM: National ill-Health Service TO: National Health Service  long-termism E3^ for all the literacies address: food quality,  air, water, noise, litter SOCIO-tech approach to applied technology Teach Hodges' model to teens, and prisoners as part of PSHE and rehab programmes

E3^ education, education, education - by literacies we include: information, emotional, media, finance, spiritual, cultural, scientific, religious, climate...

'delivers' includes: improved care experiences, integrated care (related to all the domains), patient, carer, public safety, cost effectiveness, research questions, accurate - valid reporting.

All health disciplines / professionals, social care, and APPGs ... share a common model - a conceptual framework for critical thinking and reflective practice.

Hodges' model? Simple: it's a rich, complicated, complex picture

In wider reading (relations, maths... and) drafting a post concerned with 'universal construction' I came across:

Rasanathan, K., Montesinos, E. V., Matheson, D., Etienne, C., & Evans, T. (2011). Primary health care and the social determinants of health: essential and complementary approaches for reducing inequities in health. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (1979-), 65(8), 656–660. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23050931

Figure 2 stood out for rather obvious reasons:

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Figure 2 'works' and not merely because it is clearly 'all political', but I would have swapped 'leadership reforms' with 'service delivery forms'. Trying to emphasize leadership at the individual level empowered to actually effect change. This could quickly change as per the situation. I also appreciate the jigsaw graphic.

You soon appreciate the complex nature of health care:

Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Quaternary care and prevention. Add social care, welfare, all the fields of medicine, surgery, nursing, education, policy, information, literacies, human rights, consent, mental capacity, mental health law, forensic psychiatry, self-care, local, national and global health, urban, rural, remote, virtual environments, ethics, developed and developing nations, ecosystems and funding.

And this just scratches the surface ...

Exceptional Events . . . . . . .

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Exceptional person(s)	C/o AP - Aol
	"The exception to the rule." "... avoid civilian casualties as no other army in history ..." deconfliction

Previously:

From - https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=Palestine

BBC Today and PM, 3 April 2024.

Images:

https://www.aol.com/news/aid-organizations-suspend-operations-gaza-190605787.html

https://cdn-01.media-brady.com/store/sifr/media/catalog/product/s/i/sifr_cx3a_1_std.lang.all.gif

Theater of War Productions - An Enemy of The People Feb 22 + 24

Cast Update! 

We are thrilled to announce that Kathryn Erbe, Frankie Faison, and Peter Francis James have joined the cast of An Enemy of the People on February 22 and 24, alongside David Strathairn, Francis Collins, Vivian Pinn, Victor Dzau, Brían F. O’Byrne, Jay O. Sanders, Keshia Pollack Porter, Gloria Addo-Ayensu, and many more! The project will present live dramatic readings of scenes from Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People to frame powerful audience discussions about the challenges to public in our culture today. Register below to attend in person or online! Check individual listings for confirmed cast members each night, as casts will vary and are subject to change. An Enemy of the People: A Public Health Project Thursday, February 22, 2024 7:00 pm - 9:30pm EST Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001 Featuring performances by David Strathairn (Nomadland), Frankie Faison (The Wire), Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Peter Francis James (Oz), Jay O. Sanders (True Detective), Brían F. O'Byrne (The Wonder), Marjolaine Goldsmith (Company Manager of Theater of War Productions), Monica Feit (Executive Director, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), Jeffrey Kahn (Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics), Keshia Pollack Porter (Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Tshaka Cunningham (Chief Scientific Officer, Polaris Genomics), Gloria Addo-Ayensu (Director of Health, Fairfax County Health Department), Emily Packard Dawson (Program Officer, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), Nancy Kass (Deputy Director for Public Health, Berman Institute of Bioethics), Graham Sack (Filmmaker, Dracopoulos-Bloomberg iDeas Lab Fellow), Grelia Steele (Global Continuity and Crisis Manager, Guidehouse), Peter Marks (Former Chief Theater Critic, The Washington Post), Matthew Frieman (Viral Pathogen Research Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine), and Joshua M. Sharfstein (Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health). Register to attend in person or online An Enemy of the People: A Public Health Project Saturday, February 24, 2024 7:00 pm - 9:30pm EST National Academy of Sciences  2101 Constitution Ave, NW Washington, DC 20418 Featuring performances by David Strathairn (Nomadland), Frankie Faison (The Wire), Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Peter Francis James (Oz), Jay O. Sanders (True Detective), Brían F. O'Byrne (The Wonder), Francis Collins (Former Director, National Institutes of Health), Monica Feit (Executive Director, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), Jeffrey Kahn (Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics), Keshia Pollack Porter (Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Victor Dzau (President, National Academy of Medicine), Vivian Pinn (Senior Scientist Emerita at the NIH Fogarty International Center), Ruth Faden (Berman Institute Founder; Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics), Grelia Steele (Global Continuity and Crisis Manager, Guidehouse), Peter Marks (former chief theater critic, The Washington Post), Gloria Addo-Ayensu (Director of Health, Fairfax County Health Department), Graham Sack (Filmmaker, Dracopoulos-Bloomberg iDeas Lab Fellow), Nancy Kass (Deputy Director for Public Health, Berman Institute of Bioethics), Joshua M. Sharfstein (Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Marjolaine Goldsmith (Company Manager, Theater of War Productions), and Emily Packard Dawson (Program Officer, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine). Register to attend online

 
I will register have registered (online). There is a production of An Enemy of the People in London, but it is expensive from NW England.

This afternoon I enjoyed a delayed appointment with DUNE 2021 Part 1 IMAX, a brilliant cinematic experience that includes a performance by Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides.

See also: Ibsen , theatre ...

"Models, Theories and Concepts" c/o Smith (1994). Plus ça change ...

"Whilst the impracticality of unified approaches has been noted for some time (McFarlane, 1976), it is still considered that many theories, in their efforts to explain everything, succeed only in explaining nothing (Draper, 1990). Therefore, as Kenny (1992) points out, the use of theories and models in nursing has resulted in sweeping generalizations which 'are not always personally, culturally or contextually appropriate'.

In overcoming this difficulty many authors advocate that theories of lesser scope and abstraction are considered (McFarlane, 1976; Clarke, 1986; Draper, 1990; Moore, 1990; Ingram, 1991; Reid & Bond, 1991). Such theories have been termed 'mid-range' and address a more limited number of variables in particular situations (scope), whilst being empirically grounded and focusing on practical problems (abstraction) (Rogers & Shoemaker, 1971; Walker & Avant, 1983; Fawcett, 1984; Lowenberg, 1984). According to Clarke (1986), mid-range theories should appeal to practitioners as being more directly accessible conceptually and linguistically. Reed & Robinson (1991) contend that, given the diversity of nursing practice, the search for grand theory is inappropriate and nursing would be better served by developing mid-range theories that are 'more precisely stated, more easily treated and produce more specific indications for practice'." pp. 59-60.

Smith, J.P. (1994) Advanced Nursing Series - Models, Theories and Concepts. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications.

While the structure of Hodges' model is global - 'grand' in scope, the model, as a template is blank and open to whatever conceptual content follows in the practice situation, or context. 'Precision' can be assured using Hodges' model as it can facilitate person-centred care, integrated care, reflection, critical thinking and conceptual development. 

Delivery of high-quality health care is not a given. 

Safe, effective and equitable care is variously dependent upon staffing, the skills and attitudes of individual nurses, staff numbers, skill-mix, team effectiveness and resource allocation. Hodges' model can also assist users to recognise and call-out unmet needs, deficits in the quality of care, and risks to the safety of patients, the public, staff and the profession.

At risk of sounding grand if not grandiose ...

Change will and must follow - in respect of models and theories, not just of and for nursing but health and care at scale.

UK Higher Education Research Excellence Framework - Disciplines

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a national assessment of the quality of UK higher education research in all disciplines.

34 subject-based Units of Assessment (UOAs)

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Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience Archaeology Theology and Religious Studies Philosophy [Mathematics & Logic] ^Communication  as Intra- Interpersonal (Skills) Neurodiversity hence an individual's sense-making

Clinical Medicine (Neuroscience) Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy Biological sciences  Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Sciences Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences Chemistry Physics Mathematical Sciences Computer Science and Informatics Engineering Architecture, Built Environment and Planning Geography and Environmental Studies Archaeology Area Studies Sport and Exercise Sciences,

Archaeology Social Work and Social Policy Sociology Anthropology and Development Studies area studies Education Modern Languages and Linguistics English Language and Literature History Classics Communication^, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies

Leisure and Tourism Archaeology Economics and Econometrics Business and Management Studies Law area studies Politics and International Studies

As ever, you see the idealised nature of conceptual (and other) models. I have repeated archaeology, and area studies, added mathematics and logic to the intra- interpersonal (our reasoning, imaginative ability) which increasingly is being challenged and debated as computer-based proofs 'take-over'. I'm not sure where future studies might sit (or pace anxiously!)?

The REF was mentioned at the Improving University Teaching Conference [IUT] in the past week. I'd been meaning to look at the scope of the framework which is often raised across the media, hence this post. IUT, was well worth the effort of a presentation and attending. A global event spanning Australia-Asia, Europe, and North America - one to follow in the future.

RCN Nursing Awards 2023

Dear CHAIN member,

We would like to draw your attention to the following opportunity. 

Please pass on as appropriate. Thank you.
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RCN Nursing Awards 2023

The RCN Nursing Awards invites nurses, students and nursing support workers to share their innovations and expertise and celebrate their contribution to improving care and outcomes for their patients.

Entries are open to individuals and teams in 15 categories covering the diversity of nursing.

The awards will be judged by an expert judging panel chaired by Foundation of Nursing Studies Chief Executive Joanne Bosanquet.

Alongside nominations from colleagues and individuals, the Patient’s Choice category will give the public an opportunity to nominate a nurse or nursing support worker who has made a difference to their lives. The winner will be decided by public vote.

The awards are open to nurses, midwives and health visitors registered to practise in the UK and the Channel Islands, as well as nursing students, nursing support workers and nursing associates.

The deadline for entries is 28 April.

For more details please see:
https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/news/uk-prestigious-rcn-nursing-awards-2023-now-open-for-entries-280223

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Regards,

Irina Johnston

CHAIN Administrative Assistant

World Drowning Prevention Day

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I can learn to swim? Yes, you can - it's fun too!  Even if you can swim: Respect the water! Be aware - of water depth, the water's temperature and your body's reaction to cold, what lies beneath, and the effect of alcohol and substances, and that recent meal... Be safe - while having fun!
Local Community Knowledge of local risk	Policy Facilities Development aid/funding

LMIC: Opportunity to get involved with the National Institute for Health and Care Research, UK

Hello,

We have an exciting opportunity for people with lived experience based in low and middle income countries to get involved with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) as funding committee members and reviewers, and we’d very much appreciate your help.

The NIHR is funded by the UK government and is a major funder of high quality global health research. Our next research programme is the Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) Call 5 , which is focused on strengthening health service delivery and resilience in low and middle income countries (LMICs) in the context of extreme weather events.

Would you be interested in joining us and giving your recommendations on which research proposals to fund? We are looking for people with lived experience of extreme weather events. Your insights and ideas can help shape research that is important to people living in LMICs, and improve healthcare services for some of the most vulnerable and marginalised communities.

The role of public committee member or reviewer involves reading funding proposals and providing a written summary of reflections. We pay a fee for involvement as a way of thanking you for your support. 

Please complete the Expression of Interest Form and submit this to us by Monday 16 May 2022.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this in more detail, please get in touch with Razina Hussain at ccfcei AT nihr.ac.uk. 

Thank you and best wishes,

Razina

Razina Hussain

Programme Manager, Community Engagement and Involvement | PPI and Engagement | NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF)

e. razina.hussain AT nihr.ac.uk

Central Commissioning Facility

Grange House

15 Church Street

Twickenham

TW1 3NL

My source: HIFA

Fragmentation in Nursing ...

Jarrin, Olga F., "An Integral Philosophy and Definition of Nursing: Implications for a Unifying Meta-Theory of Nursing" (2006). School of Nursing Scholarly Works. 46.
https://opencommons.uconn.edu/son_articles/46

 - begins (page 2):

"From the frame of reference of mainstream thinking, a major issue in
nursing is our failure to achieve unity. ... From a feminist perspective,
the real issue involves divisiveness and fragmentation that sustains
oppressive relations in an industrialized, patriarchal medical system.
Remaining divided from one another serves the interests of the
dominant group. Rather than benefiting us, fragmentation in nursing
serves to confuse us, to keep our minds and hearts focused on the
dominant system for solutions that never materialize."

~ Peggy L. Chinn¹

 

"Fragmentation within the profession of nursing is still a pressing concern fueled by differences in educational preparation, specialization, disparities in working conditions, divergent worldviews, and, where I hope this paper will make a difference, a lack of a basic nursing theory that is easily understood. The following pages will lay the philosophical and theoretical foundation for a unifying meta-theory of nursing, which retains all the diversity of nursing while providing common ground for communication, both within our profession, and for better articulation of our work to other professions and the general public. The contemporary philosophical and epistemological grounding of nursing in systems theory is challenged, but not rejected, in this new vision for unification and growth of nursing as a discipline and a profession."

Previously on W2tQ:

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=wilber

Book: i "Making Research Matter - Steps to Impact for Health and Care Researchers" Open Access

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i m p a c t	impact
impact	"Making Research Matter"*

My source:

https://twitter.com/TaraJLamont/status/1448999679899865088?s=20

Thanks also to @policypress 

*An ever greater need for political impact!

Petition "Protect the title Nurse in UK law"

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	"The term nurse can be used by anyone in the UK. They can use this term to offer professional advice and services even if they have no nursing qualifications, experience or have been struck off a professional register." More details

My source (and signed):

Anyone in the UK can call themselves a nurse. Even if they have no nursing qualifications or experience. They can even call themselves a nurse if they have been struck off. This is a #PatientSafety issue
If you are concerned too please sign #ProtectNurse https://t.co/FD9MS1JZpu

— Prof Alison Leary 💙 (@alisonleary1) June 15, 2021

PUBLIC VICES: The individual and collective dimensions of civic and epistemic vices

1-2 October 2021, Università di Genova, Genova (Italy)

Keynote speakers:

Heather D. Battaly                 (University of Connecticut)
Emanuela Ceva                    (University of Geneva)
Fabienne Peter                    (University of Warwick)

Alessandra Tanesini            (Cardiff University)

CFA:

The conference aims to bring together political and moral philosophers to discuss key civic and epistemic vices, to assess their corrupting impact on public life, and to devise effective countermeasures.

Political deliberation is increasingly characterized by epistemic vices, e.g. inaccuracy (Chambers 2020), arrogance (Tanesini 2018), closed-mindedness (Battaly 2020) and epistemic insouciance (Cassam 2018). Consequently, many citizens worry that the public sphere is being polluted by an unprecedented number of misleading claims and inaccurate statements (Matsa and Shearer, 2018; Mitchell et al., 2016, 2019). Furthermore, certain epistemic vices could even compromise the legitimacy of democratic deliberation (Peter 2020).

On the other side, the conference will focus on civic vices. There has been a growing debate on civic virtues which facilitate public life (Croce & Vaccarezza 2018), e.g. prudence (Ottonelli 2018), effectiveness (Zuolo 2020), resilience (Snow 2018) or civic friendship (Schwarzenbach 1996). Yet, comparably less attention has been paid to civic vices, which are not limited to the negative side of civic virtues, but include new character traits with dangerous impact on democratic well-functioning e.g. hyperbolic partisanship (Muirhead 2010), polarization (Aikin & Talisse 2020), radicalization (Waldner and Lust 2018, 109), or corruption (Ceva & Ferretti 2017, 2021).

We welcome submissions relevant to this research aim, broadly construed. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following questions:

• What are civic and epistemic vices? What is the harm in them?
• Are individuals blameworthy for the development of civic and epistemic vices?
• Are there genuinely collective civic and epistemic vices?
• How do civic and epistemic vices impact democratic politics?
• How can civic and epistemic vices be curtailed or corrected?
• Are there specific virtues that should be cultivated among democratic citizens?
• Under what conditions could these be fostered?
• Where does the responsibility lie for rectifying civic and epistemic vices?
• What institutional mechanisms, if any, should be ordained to control civic and epistemic vices?

To apply for the conference, send an abstract (500 words) to: callpublicvices AT gmail.com by June 30. Notification of acceptance will be sent within a month.

COVID DISCLAIMER: the conference is organized aiming for personal attendance, as vaccination should have reached significant levels in Italy by the end of September. If circumstances require it, we will consider online alternatives or a hybrid format.

Organizing Committee: Valeria Ottonelli, Angelo Campodonico, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, Federico Zuolo, Carlo Burelli, Carline Klijnman.

This workshop is part of a PRIN research project: Deceit and Self-Deception. How We Should Address Fake News and Other Cognitive Failures of the Democratic Public (www.deceitproject.com) and it is supported by Aretai Center on Virtues (www.aretaicenter.com).

My source: 

Philos-L "The Liverpool List" run by the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/

NMC: A consultation on draft standards for community and public health nursing

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What do you think ...	... as a Professional?
... as a member of the Public?	"We are reviewing post-registration standards and we want to hear from you! Find out more and tell us what you think of the draft standards. The consultation will be open until 2 August 2021 #FutureCommunityNurse

My source: Twitter