Episode 1: Pandemics by Past Caring published on 2021-01-20T18:11:56Z In this 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. She 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) https://www.rcn.org.uk/library-exhibitions/pandemic-nursing Mary Beth Heffernan PPE Portrait project: https://ppeportrait.org/ The Pandemic Century by Mark Honigsbaum https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/112/1120525/the-pandemic-century/9780753558287.html Image: Physicians expressing their thanks to influenza. Coloured etching attributed to Temple West, 1803 (Wellcome Collection) https://wellcomecollection.org/works/geepqy6x RCN Fair Pay for Nursing campaign https://www.rcn.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-us/fair-pay-for-nursing Genre Learning