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Papers by Danisha Jenkins

Research paper thumbnail of “We Come From Different Worlds”

Advances in nursing science, Apr 11, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of Dangerous and Unprofessional Content: Anarchist Dreams for Alternate Nursing Futures

Philosophies, Feb 14, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of The Toxic Stress of Racism and Its Relationship to Frailty

Clinical nursing research, Mar 7, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of ‘This Is Not a Patient, This Is Property of the State’: Nursing, ethics, and the immigrant detention apparatus

Nursing Inquiry, Jun 19, 2020

This paper opens with first-hand accounts of critical care medical interventions in which detaine... more This paper opens with first-hand accounts of critical care medical interventions in which detainees, in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), are brought to the emergency department for treatment. This case dramatizes the extent to which the provision of ethical and acceptable nursing care is jeopardized by federal law enforcement paradigms. Drawing on the scholarship of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, this paper offers a theoretical account of the power dynamics that inform the health care of patients who find themselves caught in the custodial scaffolding of a vast immigration and detention apparatus. It offers an analysis of the display of sovereign and biopolitical power over the lives (and deaths) of detainees (Foucault), as well as the ways these individuals are reduced to "bare life" under the political pretext of an emergency or "state of exception" (Agamben). Our purpose here is both theoretical and practical: to better understand the often hidden agency or impersonal "will" exercised by the immigrant detention system, but also to equip clinicians in these and cognate facilities (e.g., prisons) with the critical tools by which they might better navigate incommensurable paradigms (i.e., care vs. custody) in order to deliver the best care while upholding their ethical duties as a care provider. This is all the more pressing because hospitals are not sanctuaries and given the incursion of federal law enforcement agents, nurses may find themselves conscripted as de facto agents of the state.

Research paper thumbnail of ‘This Is Not a Patient, This Is Property of the State’: Nursing, ethics, and the immigrant detention apparatus

Nursing Inquiry, 2020

This paper opens with first‐hand accounts of critical care medical interventions in which detaine... more This paper opens with first‐hand accounts of critical care medical interventions in which detainees, in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), are brought to the emergency department for treatment. This case dramatizes the extent to which the provision of ethical and acceptable nursing care is jeopardized by federal law enforcement paradigms. Drawing on the scholarship of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, this paper offers a theoretical account of the power dynamics that inform the health care of patients who find themselves caught in the custodial scaffolding of a vast immigration and detention apparatus. It offers an analysis of the display of sovereign and biopolitical power over the lives (and deaths) of detainees (Foucault), as well as the ways these individuals are reduced to “bare life” under the political pretext of an emergency or “state of exception” (Agamben). Our purpose here is both theoretical and practical: to better understand the often hid...

Research paper thumbnail of Hospitals as total institutions

Nursing Philosophy, Dec 23, 2021

The image of the hospital is presented to the public as a place of healing. Though the oft-critic... more The image of the hospital is presented to the public as a place of healing. Though the oft-criticized total institutions of the past have been notably dismantled, the totalizing practices therein are now operationalized in the health care system. Through the lens of Erving Goffman, this article offers ways in which health care institutions operationalize totalizing practices, contributing to the mortification of patients and nurses alike in service to the bureaucratic machine. This article examines the ways in which totalizing practices may disrupt the agency of both patients and nurses alike.

Research paper thumbnail of “So There. I Won.”

Journal of Forensic Nursing, May 25, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Implementation of an Emergency Department–Embedded Infusion Center for the Administration of Monoclonal Antibody Therapy in Patients With Early COVID-19 Infection

Journal of Infusion Nursing, 2022

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has tested nurse staffing and other resources ne... more The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has tested nurse staffing and other resources necessary for lifesaving treatment. The emergency use authorization in November 2020 of bamlanivimab as monotherapy and casirivimab/imdevimab as combination therapy brought hope to many as an option for outpatients at risk for severe illness. However, logistical concerns were soon revealed, because safe administration requires a location where patients can receive specialized care and monitoring for a period of 2 hours. This type of therapy would normally be offered at an outpatient infusion center. These centers often serve persons who are immunocompromised, and introducing COVID-19–positive individuals could threaten the safety of this population. This article describes the deployment of an emergency department–embedded infusion center set up for the purpose of supporting community members and providers electing for this treatment option.

Research paper thumbnail of Gender Influences in the Intersection of Acute Care Registered Nurses and Law Enforcement

Advances in Nursing Science, Feb 4, 2022

To give voice to the lived experiences of nurses and law enforcement officers who interact with o... more To give voice to the lived experiences of nurses and law enforcement officers who interact with one another in an acute care hospital setting, while gaining an understanding of individual perspectives and unique experiences, as well as how they interpret these experiences. This qualitative study used interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to strive to meet the study objectives. There is a paucity of literature on the topic of nurse and law enforcement interaction in the hospital setting. Overwhelmingly, participants described a contentious dynamic between nurses and law enforcement officers in the hospital, wrought with argument, stress, and a feeling of coming from "different worlds." The influence of gender was apparent to the female-identified participants, and gender constructs and therefore gender role conflict were critical points of contention. In exploring how nurses and law enforcement officers think about and describe their experiences, nurses and hospital systems may develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of barriers to care for incarcerated patients and of the challenging experiences nurses face in caring for these patients. The nurses' expressed feelings of intimidation, stress, and impaired self-efficacy in this dynamic underscore the need for institutional support and prioritization of caring practices, and identification of the ways in which carceral practices impair care, as well as nurses' safety.

Research paper thumbnail of (Re)defining nursing leadership: On the importance of <i>parrhèsia</i> and subversion

Journal of Nursing Management, Nov 24, 2021

Aim: Through a review of philosophical and theoretical constructs, this paper offers insight and ... more Aim: Through a review of philosophical and theoretical constructs, this paper offers insight and guidance as to ways in which nurse leaders may operationalize advocacy and an adherence to nursing's core ethical values. Background: The US health care system works in opposition to core nursing values. Nurse leaders are obliged to advocate for the preservation of ethical care delivery. Evaluation: This paper draws upon the philosophies of Fromm, Foucault, and Deleuze and Guattari to critically review the functions of nurse leaders within a capitalist paradigm.

Research paper thumbnail of Patient Violence: Providing More than Duck and Cover Training to Protect Employees

Research paper thumbnail of Nursing as total institution

Nursing Philosophy

Healthcare under the auspices of late‐stage capitalism is a total institution that mortifies nurs... more Healthcare under the auspices of late‐stage capitalism is a total institution that mortifies nurses and patients alike, demanding conformity, obedience, perfection. This capture, which resembles Deleuze's enclosure, entangles nurses in carceral systems and gives way to a postenclosure society, an institution without walls. These societies of control constitute another sort of total institution, more covert and insidious for their invisibility (Deleuze, 1992). While Delezue (1992) named physical technologies like electronic identification badges as key to understanding these societies of control, the political economy of late‐stage capitalism functions as a total institution with no cohesive, centralized, connected material apparatus required. In this manuscript, we outline the ways in which the healthcare industrial complex demands nurse conformity and how that, in turn, operationalizes nurses in service to the institution. This foundation leads to the assertion that nursing mus...

Research paper thumbnail of Clinical metabolic monitoring to inform metabolic dysregulation in sepsis

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Research paper thumbnail of Nursing in deathworlds: Necropolitics of the life, dying and death of an unhoused person in the United States healthcare industrial complex

Nursing Philosophy

This paper begins with the lived accounts of emergency and critical care medical interventions in... more This paper begins with the lived accounts of emergency and critical care medical interventions in which an unhoused person is brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. The case is a dramatised representation of the extent to which biopolitical forces via reduction to bare life through biopolitical and necropolitical operations are prominent influences in nursing and medical care. This paper draws on the scholarship of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Achille Mbembe to offer a theoretical analysis of the power dynamics that influence the health care and death care of patients who are caught in the auspices of a neoliberal capitalist healthcare apparatus. This paper offers analysis of the overt displays of biopower over those individuals cast aside as generally unworthy of access to healthcare in a postcolonial capitalist system, in addition to the ways in which humans are reduced to ‘bare life’ in their dying days. We analyse this case study through Agamben's de...

Research paper thumbnail of A mixed methods study of moral distress among frontline nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Research paper thumbnail of Nurses as Disciplinary Agents of the State

Advances in Nursing Science

Research paper thumbnail of For Whom Does the Alarm Bell Toll? On Nursing Identity and Revolution

Routledge eBooks, Sep 30, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Implementation of an Emergency Department–Embedded Infusion Center for the Administration of Monoclonal Antibody Therapy in Patients With Early COVID-19 Infection

Journal of Infusion Nursing, 2022

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has tested nurse staffing and other resources ne... more The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has tested nurse staffing and other resources necessary for lifesaving treatment. The emergency use authorization in November 2020 of bamlanivimab as monotherapy and casirivimab/imdevimab as combination therapy brought hope to many as an option for outpatients at risk for severe illness. However, logistical concerns were soon revealed, because safe administration requires a location where patients can receive specialized care and monitoring for a period of 2 hours. This type of therapy would normally be offered at an outpatient infusion center. These centers often serve persons who are immunocompromised, and introducing COVID-19–positive individuals could threaten the safety of this population. This article describes the deployment of an emergency department–embedded infusion center set up for the purpose of supporting community members and providers electing for this treatment option.

Research paper thumbnail of “We Come From Different Worlds”

Advances in nursing science, Apr 11, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of Dangerous and Unprofessional Content: Anarchist Dreams for Alternate Nursing Futures

Philosophies, Feb 14, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of The Toxic Stress of Racism and Its Relationship to Frailty

Clinical nursing research, Mar 7, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of ‘This Is Not a Patient, This Is Property of the State’: Nursing, ethics, and the immigrant detention apparatus

Nursing Inquiry, Jun 19, 2020

This paper opens with first-hand accounts of critical care medical interventions in which detaine... more This paper opens with first-hand accounts of critical care medical interventions in which detainees, in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), are brought to the emergency department for treatment. This case dramatizes the extent to which the provision of ethical and acceptable nursing care is jeopardized by federal law enforcement paradigms. Drawing on the scholarship of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, this paper offers a theoretical account of the power dynamics that inform the health care of patients who find themselves caught in the custodial scaffolding of a vast immigration and detention apparatus. It offers an analysis of the display of sovereign and biopolitical power over the lives (and deaths) of detainees (Foucault), as well as the ways these individuals are reduced to "bare life" under the political pretext of an emergency or "state of exception" (Agamben). Our purpose here is both theoretical and practical: to better understand the often hidden agency or impersonal "will" exercised by the immigrant detention system, but also to equip clinicians in these and cognate facilities (e.g., prisons) with the critical tools by which they might better navigate incommensurable paradigms (i.e., care vs. custody) in order to deliver the best care while upholding their ethical duties as a care provider. This is all the more pressing because hospitals are not sanctuaries and given the incursion of federal law enforcement agents, nurses may find themselves conscripted as de facto agents of the state.

Research paper thumbnail of ‘This Is Not a Patient, This Is Property of the State’: Nursing, ethics, and the immigrant detention apparatus

Nursing Inquiry, 2020

This paper opens with first‐hand accounts of critical care medical interventions in which detaine... more This paper opens with first‐hand accounts of critical care medical interventions in which detainees, in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), are brought to the emergency department for treatment. This case dramatizes the extent to which the provision of ethical and acceptable nursing care is jeopardized by federal law enforcement paradigms. Drawing on the scholarship of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, this paper offers a theoretical account of the power dynamics that inform the health care of patients who find themselves caught in the custodial scaffolding of a vast immigration and detention apparatus. It offers an analysis of the display of sovereign and biopolitical power over the lives (and deaths) of detainees (Foucault), as well as the ways these individuals are reduced to “bare life” under the political pretext of an emergency or “state of exception” (Agamben). Our purpose here is both theoretical and practical: to better understand the often hid...

Research paper thumbnail of Hospitals as total institutions

Nursing Philosophy, Dec 23, 2021

The image of the hospital is presented to the public as a place of healing. Though the oft-critic... more The image of the hospital is presented to the public as a place of healing. Though the oft-criticized total institutions of the past have been notably dismantled, the totalizing practices therein are now operationalized in the health care system. Through the lens of Erving Goffman, this article offers ways in which health care institutions operationalize totalizing practices, contributing to the mortification of patients and nurses alike in service to the bureaucratic machine. This article examines the ways in which totalizing practices may disrupt the agency of both patients and nurses alike.

Research paper thumbnail of “So There. I Won.”

Journal of Forensic Nursing, May 25, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Implementation of an Emergency Department–Embedded Infusion Center for the Administration of Monoclonal Antibody Therapy in Patients With Early COVID-19 Infection

Journal of Infusion Nursing, 2022

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has tested nurse staffing and other resources ne... more The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has tested nurse staffing and other resources necessary for lifesaving treatment. The emergency use authorization in November 2020 of bamlanivimab as monotherapy and casirivimab/imdevimab as combination therapy brought hope to many as an option for outpatients at risk for severe illness. However, logistical concerns were soon revealed, because safe administration requires a location where patients can receive specialized care and monitoring for a period of 2 hours. This type of therapy would normally be offered at an outpatient infusion center. These centers often serve persons who are immunocompromised, and introducing COVID-19–positive individuals could threaten the safety of this population. This article describes the deployment of an emergency department–embedded infusion center set up for the purpose of supporting community members and providers electing for this treatment option.

Research paper thumbnail of Gender Influences in the Intersection of Acute Care Registered Nurses and Law Enforcement

Advances in Nursing Science, Feb 4, 2022

To give voice to the lived experiences of nurses and law enforcement officers who interact with o... more To give voice to the lived experiences of nurses and law enforcement officers who interact with one another in an acute care hospital setting, while gaining an understanding of individual perspectives and unique experiences, as well as how they interpret these experiences. This qualitative study used interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) to strive to meet the study objectives. There is a paucity of literature on the topic of nurse and law enforcement interaction in the hospital setting. Overwhelmingly, participants described a contentious dynamic between nurses and law enforcement officers in the hospital, wrought with argument, stress, and a feeling of coming from "different worlds." The influence of gender was apparent to the female-identified participants, and gender constructs and therefore gender role conflict were critical points of contention. In exploring how nurses and law enforcement officers think about and describe their experiences, nurses and hospital systems may develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of barriers to care for incarcerated patients and of the challenging experiences nurses face in caring for these patients. The nurses' expressed feelings of intimidation, stress, and impaired self-efficacy in this dynamic underscore the need for institutional support and prioritization of caring practices, and identification of the ways in which carceral practices impair care, as well as nurses' safety.

Research paper thumbnail of (Re)defining nursing leadership: On the importance of <i>parrhèsia</i> and subversion

Journal of Nursing Management, Nov 24, 2021

Aim: Through a review of philosophical and theoretical constructs, this paper offers insight and ... more Aim: Through a review of philosophical and theoretical constructs, this paper offers insight and guidance as to ways in which nurse leaders may operationalize advocacy and an adherence to nursing's core ethical values. Background: The US health care system works in opposition to core nursing values. Nurse leaders are obliged to advocate for the preservation of ethical care delivery. Evaluation: This paper draws upon the philosophies of Fromm, Foucault, and Deleuze and Guattari to critically review the functions of nurse leaders within a capitalist paradigm.

Research paper thumbnail of Patient Violence: Providing More than Duck and Cover Training to Protect Employees

Research paper thumbnail of Nursing as total institution

Nursing Philosophy

Healthcare under the auspices of late‐stage capitalism is a total institution that mortifies nurs... more Healthcare under the auspices of late‐stage capitalism is a total institution that mortifies nurses and patients alike, demanding conformity, obedience, perfection. This capture, which resembles Deleuze's enclosure, entangles nurses in carceral systems and gives way to a postenclosure society, an institution without walls. These societies of control constitute another sort of total institution, more covert and insidious for their invisibility (Deleuze, 1992). While Delezue (1992) named physical technologies like electronic identification badges as key to understanding these societies of control, the political economy of late‐stage capitalism functions as a total institution with no cohesive, centralized, connected material apparatus required. In this manuscript, we outline the ways in which the healthcare industrial complex demands nurse conformity and how that, in turn, operationalizes nurses in service to the institution. This foundation leads to the assertion that nursing mus...

Research paper thumbnail of Clinical metabolic monitoring to inform metabolic dysregulation in sepsis

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Research paper thumbnail of Nursing in deathworlds: Necropolitics of the life, dying and death of an unhoused person in the United States healthcare industrial complex

Nursing Philosophy

This paper begins with the lived accounts of emergency and critical care medical interventions in... more This paper begins with the lived accounts of emergency and critical care medical interventions in which an unhoused person is brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. The case is a dramatised representation of the extent to which biopolitical forces via reduction to bare life through biopolitical and necropolitical operations are prominent influences in nursing and medical care. This paper draws on the scholarship of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, and Achille Mbembe to offer a theoretical analysis of the power dynamics that influence the health care and death care of patients who are caught in the auspices of a neoliberal capitalist healthcare apparatus. This paper offers analysis of the overt displays of biopower over those individuals cast aside as generally unworthy of access to healthcare in a postcolonial capitalist system, in addition to the ways in which humans are reduced to ‘bare life’ in their dying days. We analyse this case study through Agamben's de...

Research paper thumbnail of A mixed methods study of moral distress among frontline nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Research paper thumbnail of Nurses as Disciplinary Agents of the State

Advances in Nursing Science

Research paper thumbnail of For Whom Does the Alarm Bell Toll? On Nursing Identity and Revolution

Routledge eBooks, Sep 30, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Implementation of an Emergency Department–Embedded Infusion Center for the Administration of Monoclonal Antibody Therapy in Patients With Early COVID-19 Infection

Journal of Infusion Nursing, 2022

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has tested nurse staffing and other resources ne... more The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has tested nurse staffing and other resources necessary for lifesaving treatment. The emergency use authorization in November 2020 of bamlanivimab as monotherapy and casirivimab/imdevimab as combination therapy brought hope to many as an option for outpatients at risk for severe illness. However, logistical concerns were soon revealed, because safe administration requires a location where patients can receive specialized care and monitoring for a period of 2 hours. This type of therapy would normally be offered at an outpatient infusion center. These centers often serve persons who are immunocompromised, and introducing COVID-19–positive individuals could threaten the safety of this population. This article describes the deployment of an emergency department–embedded infusion center set up for the purpose of supporting community members and providers electing for this treatment option.