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Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise to Empower Women and StrengthenHealth Services and Systems: Commentary and Context
Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Nightingale Professor Nursing, Chair, Director
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DOI: 10.1016/j.outlook.2015.09.001
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Title: Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise to Empower Women and
Strengthen Health Services and Systems: Commentary and Context
Julie Fairman, PhD, RN, FAAN
Nightingale Professor Nursing
Chair, Biobehavioral Health Sciences Department
Director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing
University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing
Fairman@nursing.upenn.edu
Corresponding author: See above.
Permanent address: 217 Glenn Rd, Ardmore, PA 19003
Conflicts of interest: No financial interest. The author participated in the IOM
workshop that formed the basis of the papers in this commentary.
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Abstract
This commentary provides historical context to the papers by Salmon and Maeda,
and Pittman and Salmon in this issue. The papers emerged from the 2014 Institute
of Medicine's (IOM) global workshop and its subsequent report, Empowering
Women and Strengthening Health Systems and Services through Investing in
Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise: Lessons from Lower-Income Countries:
Workshop on Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise. Although nursing and midwifery
enterprise have helped women achieve higher social status and economic security
across time and place, their combination with intentionality in the modern context
is new and offers an innovative mechanism for empowering women. Historical
episodes offer evidence for the need for a stable source for enterprise services and
funding and the need for women in the professions and in the communities they
serve to work together towards common goals pertaining to health.
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Introduction
Salmon, Maeda, and Pittman, in their body of work in this issue, provide an
interesting and fruitful counterpoint to rhetoric surrounding the failures of the
American health system. Instead of focusing on payment and costs of traditional
care that are physician or institutionally driven, both papers concentrate on how an
empowered workforce of women might achieve health system reform aims. They
provide both a broad overview and focused case studies of ways that nursing,
midwifery and nursing care workers, the largest group of providers in the world,
could achieve a triple aim of women’s empowerment and increased social status,
better access to care for their communities, and better use of an underutilized
nursing workforce in the United States (US).
Salmon’s and Maeda’s article1 focuses on the 2014 Institute of Medicine’s
(IOM) global workshop and its subsequent report, Empowering Women and
Strengthening Health Systems and Services through Investing in Nursing and
Midwifery Enterprise: Lessons from Lower-Income Countries: Workshop on Nursing
and Midwifery Enterprise.2 Pittman and Salmon3 present a series of three case
studies from across the globe that may have characteristics translatable to the
United States. Both papers provide a springboard for health policy and investment
strategies that are potentially sustainable and scalable and could significantly
improve our models of care.
Empowerment and Nursing and Midwifery
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The authors’ ideas, in our current context, are fresh and very exciting. Their
combination of intentionality, noted by Salmon and Maeda, and an organized
approach to enterprise within the context of nursing are novel ideas. Nursing and
midwifery as vehicles to empower women by increasing their social and economic
status is, however, historically contingent and reflects the context of the time period,
place, and economics. Nurses and midwives, for example, have had a contentious
history. Public health nurses and their allies (wealthy women and medical public
health officers) were instrumental in driving midwives from practice in the early
20th century.4 The Maternal Child Association in New York City and the Frontier
Nursing Services in West Virginia are examples of institutions that survived. Nurses
have also been adept, at particular times, at protecting the profession above the
public’s needs. Nurses’ battle to claim the title of nurse is one that has endured from
the early decades of the 20th century to our current time and is one that has
disenfranchised women, such as nurses’ aides and community health workers who
nursed.5 On the other hand, nurses have been flexible in meeting the particular
crises of our public and private health care: Nurses created a workforce that
supported the growth of hospitals6, nurses moved into expanded practice roles in
the 1960s to fill a primary care shortage7, and nurses embraced business
fundamentals in the 21st Century to provide higher value and quality of care at
lower prices. Nursing has empowered women but also disempowered certain
groups of women.
Since the development of nurse training schools in the 1880s and 1890s in
the United States, nursing has been a mechanism particularly for working class
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white women to gain a stable occupation and to achieve middle class status.
Although superintendents specifically sought out the daughters of white farmers,
preachers, and teachers, the quintessential middle class occupations, for their
training schools, it was working class women who saw nursing as a springboard to
middle class status and values.8 The World War II Army Nurse Cadet Corp (insert
photo here) (Caption: Marceline Adamson Salmon, Army Nurse Cadet Corp circa
1940s) (as well as the Navy) offered primarily white women from lower and middle
income families an opportunity to support the war effort, achieve officer rank and
its benefits, and to gain training that provided a path to middle class status and
values.9 After the war, nurses in hospitals and clinics, and those returning from the
battlefields, used their training to supplement family incomes or to remain
independent, if single. Nurse training was one of the few occupations that granted
nurses from many racial and ethnic groups entry into solid middle class status and
embodied values, even as some, such as African American nurses and men, were
relegated to segregated hospitals and work spaces, and were denied full
engagement in the Armed Forces during World War II.10
As Salmon and Maeda note, “Empowerment entails providing a vehicle to
increase a woman’s status in their family and community and in institutions in
which they practice.”11 In contrast, historian of nursing Patricia D’Antonio wrote,
“…most women and men who chose to do nursing’s work wanted to do good. But
they also wanted to do well…in the social spaces they occupied in their own
communities, neighborhoods, and families…” 12 Nurses have provided that
unacknowledged safety net of health care services to families and communities that
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are not priced out or included in health care costs. They provided (and still do) a
sort of “back porch” commodity that was and is a critical health resource rooted in
their community identity.13 Their work with families and communities bestowed
status and power on nurses which was not always replicated in the more formal
hospital institutions. This was especially true for nurses of color who were typically
more educated than their community members.14
Nursing offered US women opportunities for economic stability. Even
through the Depression Era and in times of nurse workforce oversupply, nurses
found employment when many others could not. The federal government provided
employment through rural health programs, maternal and child health programs
(through Shepard Towner programs), and other mechanisms when state programs
were financially unsustainable.15 Post World War II nurses tended to stay longer in
the work force than before the war, when many, if they married, left the workforce.
Post-war nurses became part of the two-income household economy that fueled the
post-war middle class economic boom and consumption culture.16 Steady work and
income, in addition to the value of their middle class identity as a nurse, was and
remains a key factor for the profession to empower women who constitute most of
the workforce.
As with any historical idea, empowerment of women through nursing and
midwifery was also historically complex and was shaped by class and race. Post
World War II, nurses struggled to distance themselves from other women in health
care, such as nursing aides, as they attempted to gain greater power in patient care.
In the 1960s and 1970s, during the rise of second wave feminism, there was on the
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part of some, as Ellen Baer noted in her New York Time Editorial in 1991, a
“feminist disdain for nursing.”17 Many feminists perceived nursing and midwifery
as professions dependent on medicine, during a time when women were fighting to
enter the medical profession itself. Some feminists saw medicine, rather than
nursing, as part of their liberating gender and class rhetoric. On the other hand, the
Women’s Health Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was a response to the overt
paternalism of male physicians, particularly in the area of women’s health. Nurses
participated in women’s health clinics, and some women who were deeply involved
in the movement entered nursing and midwifery as a second career in the decades
of the 1980s and 1990s, because they understood these roles offered viable careers
and authority in women’s health care.18
Intentionality
Even as training school superintendents were seeking the right kind of
woman for their classes, women actively sought out training in hospital nursing
schools and institutions of higher education. Intentionality, thus, was multi-
directional. Hospital training schools did not spend many resources to bring women
into nursing, and in many instances, women of racial and ethnic minorities, and of
some religions (e.g. Jews, Mormons, and Catholics at points in time) were
purposefully excluded from the profession or were only allowed entry through
segregated or religious affiliated schools at least until after World War II.19 Even so,
those who entered training understood how they contributed to their own survival
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as single women and how they contributed to the survival of their families through
their income. Their work bestowed benefit beyond their impact on health.
Enterprise and Nursing and Midwifery
Combining intentionality and formal financial support through business
enterprises is a new idea. Historian Rosemary Stevens argues that health care has
always been a business, but it has cloaked its commercial interests in philanthropy
and voluntarism in order to maintain financial independence from the state.20
There are many examples throughout the history of nursing of wealthy
philanthropists funding schools of nursing or nursing services. Most of these were
directed to the improvement of health in a particular community and not
intentionally towards the nursing enterprise as defined by Salmon and Maeda.
Florence Nightingale believed “…every woman is a nurse…” and trained nurses were
a mechanism to reform hospitals as well as provide stable employment to women of
character. 21 The post-Crimean War Nightingale Fund paid for the St. Thomas’s
Training School at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, England, as well as the trainees
and nurses who worked there. Elisabeth Mills (Mrs. Whitelaw) Reid, a wealthy
philanthropist, provided the money for the Ogden Mills Training School at the
Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium in New York in 1912.22 In addition to providing
training for nurses to care for tuberculosis patients, the school offered professional
training in an area with few other job opportunities. She also supported The Town
and Country Nursing Service. Whitelaw Reid and a mix of wealthy philanthropic
women believed nurses and local women working together could improve the
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health of rural communities.23 Midwives in early 20th century Irish, Russian, and
Italian communities served as independent contractors, but they were not
supported or franchised by external organizations.24
There are examples of nurses and midwives developing entrepreneurial
models of care that encompassed the business of healthy communities. These
organizations, for example, the Frontier Nursing Service in West Virginia, and the
Starr Center in Philadelphia, were started by entrepreneurial, wealthy,
philanthropic men and women who wanted to improve the health of communities.
They also saw the services of nurses as providing income (however slight) to the
organizations while offering reasonable paying jobs to nurses, midwives, and other
women in the community. Lucille Kinlein began her own practice in 1971 in College
Park, MD.25 She had no previous business experience, and she funded her
independent practice. She later extended her philosophy of self-care into the
Profession of Kinlein, an enterprise that included books, tapes, and other enterprise
products. None of these examples were supported by franchising organizations that
provided business skills or financing opportunities.
Conclusion
As we think about the power of nursing and midwifery to elevate women
across the globe to greater power and social status within their community through
enterprise while improving health systems, there are certain lessons and
imperatives for doing things differently than we have done in the past. First, a
stable source of funding is critical. There should be enterprise partners who have
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the capacities to finance and develop business support services. They should
partner with institutions that educate women as nurses, midwives, and other
caregivers. Sustainability has to be built in and not left to the next interested
philanthropist. The Starr Center, for example, lost its momentum when its
philanthropic patrons lost interest and when no one else was ready to fill the
breech. The Frontier Nursing Service was sustained through Medicare and Medicaid
funding.
Secondly, women must work together to sustain systems and services.
Marginalizing certain types of providers, as has happened between nurses and
nurses’ aides and between public health nurses and midwives, will not support
women’s empowerment, nor will it support successful enterprise. On the other
hand, new models of care that integrate caregivers other than nurses should
consider even greater integration, or we risk territorial and credentialing conflicts
that are divisive.
As we think about the best utilization of workforce and resources, women’s
empowerment through enterprise as a way to improve health services provides a
critical opportunity that is rooted in history but has a very modern shape. The
articles by Salmon, Maeda, and Pittman provide us with an innovative blueprint for
scalability and sustainability of the enterprise model.
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Acknowledgements: I would like to thank the RWJF, which has been incredibly
supportive, as well as my colleagues, Patricia D’Antonio and Cindy Connolly, who
read drafts and offered critique. Thanks also to Dionysia Petrakis who helped
format and edit this work.
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to Empower Women and Strengthen Health Services and Systems: An Emerging
Global Body of Work,” Nursing Outlook, n.d. 2 Institute of Medicine (IOM), “Empowering Women and Strengthening Health
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Lessons from Lower-Income Countries : Workshop Summary” (Washington, D.C:
The National Academies Press, 2015). 3 Patricia Pittman and Marla E. Salmon, “Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise in Lower
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Nursing 100, no. 10 (October 2000): 50–56, doi:10.2307/3522317; Christa Craven
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