DAY 1 – Thursday May 19
12:30 – 13:00 Registration with coffee/tea.
Morning: Conference attendees are welcome to visit the old Anatomical Theatre and Rijksmuseum Boerhaave exhibitions for free
12.30 – 13.00: Registration with coffee/tea in the Foyer of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.
Session 1 Welcome and Introduction to the Conference: Chair Dr. Eldrid Bringmann.
13:10
Introductory remarks on the purpose of this conference and the significance of the focus on the role of nurses with regard to suicidal patients and their relatives.
Dr. Cecile aan de Stegge
13:30
A Word of Welcome to the International Nursing Audience of this Conference.
Prof. dr. Bianca Buurman
14:40
Historic and latest developments in the field of suicide prevention in the Netherlands.
Dr. Renske Gilissen
15:00
Q&A
15:15 – 15:45 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 2: Chair Prof. dr. Manon Parry, Pulse Network, University of Amsterdam/VU Amsterdam.
15:45
KEYNOTE:
Suicide-Safer Project Lead, Reader, School of Allied and Public Health Professions, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Social Care, Canterbury Christ Church University. “Describing and Redescribing Suicide: From Pathology to Questions of Social Justice?”.
Dr. Ian Marsh
16:30
Conceptual Confusion, Institutional Clarity? Suicide, Attempted Suicide, and Self-Harm in Twentieth-Century Britain.
Dr. Chris Millard
17:00
Questions from the audience, for all three afternoon’s speakers.
17:45 – 19:30
Annual Meeting for Members of the EAHN, with soup and bread, followed by a guided tour of exhibitions at the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.
NB: All other visitors are asked to take a meal in the city of Leiden.
DAY 2 – Friday May 20
09:00 – 09:30 Arrival and tea/coffee.
SESSION 3: Suicide and Suicide Prevention in History. Chair Dr. Sabine Braunschweig.
09:50 AM
Under the Constant Charge of a Special Attendant: Managing Suicidal Behaviour in the Era of Non-Restraint, 1850 – 1890.
Dr. Sarah Chaney
10:30
Q&A
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 4: Contemporary Nursing Care for Suicidal Patients. Chair Anneloes van Staa, 113 Suicide Prevention
11:30
Challenges faced by nurses and physicians in acute care for patients who attempted suicide.
Dr. Saskia Mérelle
11:50
Nurses in General Hospitals: What Knowledge and Skills Would they Like to Learn?
Dr. Cecile aan de Stegge
12:50
Q&A
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
SESSION 5: A Different Perspective. Chair dr. Cecile aan de Stegge
14:00 AM
KEYNOTE:
Caught in the Firing Line: Nurse Prescribers as Human Shields.
Prof. Dr. David Healy
14:30 AM
Q&A for David Healy.
14:40 AM
Homelessness, Ill Health and Death: Street Medicine Lessons from a Personal Perspective.
Dr. Igor van Laere
15:00
On Accidental and Essential Suicides. Some reflections on philosophy, madness and the act of suicide.
Dr. Wouter Kusters
15:30 – 15:45
Q&A for Igor van Laere and Wouter Kusters.
15:45 – 16:15 Tea Break
SESSION 6: Nursing History Collections and Sources: Show and Tell Session. Chair: Prof. dr. Manon Parry.
16:15
Suicide in the collection of the Museum of the Mind in Haarlem.
Carine Neefjes and Jantien de Bruijn
16:35
Q&A for Carine and Jantien
17:30
Q&A for Mieneke & Hugo
17:40
Proclaiming (for the First Time) the Prize for the Best Historic Bachelor or Master Thesis on ‘History in Nursing’ of the Netherlands and Flanders 2020-2021.
Dr. Catharina Th. Bakker
17:50 – 18:00
The prize winning candidate about his/her thesis.
19:00 – 21:30 SOCIAL DINNER IN LAB071, Leiden
DAY 3 – saturday May 21
09:00 – 09:30 Opening with tea/coffee and welcome.
SESSION 7: Better Care for Suicidal Persons. Chair: dr. Cecile aan de Stegge
09:30 AM
Shifting between Hope and Uncertainty. Expectations of Family Members and Nurses’ Experiences supporting Inpatients with Suicidal Ideations.
Dr. Bart Debyser and Annelies Verkest, Msct (representing Dr. Joeri Vandewalle)
09:55 AM
Engagement between Adults Living through Suicidal Crisis and Nurses in Mental HealthWards.
Dr. Caressa van Hoe
10:30
Q&A
11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
SESSION 8: Caring for the Caregivers: Suicide and Nurses. Chair: Prof. Dr. Sarah Waters.
11:40
Balancing between Care for Suicidal Patients and Prevention of Impact of Service User’s Suicides on Mental Health Professionals.
Alison van Laar Msc, and Dr. Peter T. Murphy
12:10
Suicide and Times of Crisis: Lessons of History for the Covid Pandemic.
Prof. Dr. Julie Gottlieb
12:30
Q&A
13:00 – 13:15