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Nurses' work : issues across time and place
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With contributions from some of the most renowned nursing scholars and historians, the real-life history of how nurses worked and how they endured the ever-changing economic, social, educational, a...
With contributions from some of the most renowned nursing scholars and historians, the real-life history of how nurses worked and how they endured the ever-changing economic, social, educational, and technological milieu is presented in a captivating collection of articles. Includes information on African American men, black nurses, blood transfusion, cardiac nurses, Jessie Sleet, Elizabeth Tyler, Edith Carter, deep South, Haley Fiske, Lee Frankel, Emily Hawley Gillespie, Great Depression, Alma Haupt, Virginia Henderson, Lawrence E. Meltzer, midwives, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP), nursing care plans, nursing education, nursing shortage, patient centered care, polio, private duty nursing, public health nursing, training schools, Lucy Van Frank, Lilliam Wald, yellow fever, etc.
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- Creator
- Patricia D'Antonio ... [and others], editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York : Springer Pub., [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0826102115, 082610374X, 9786611812799, 9780826102119, 128181279X
- OCLC
- ocn437109613, ocm68786832
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Family caregiving in the nineteenth century : Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie Huftalen, 1858-1888 -- The Legacy of domesticity : nursing in early nineteenth-century America -- Unheralded nurses : male caregivers in the nineteenth-century south -- Satisfied to carry the bag : three black community health nurses' contributions to health care reform, 1900-1937 -- A sound economic basis for schools of nursing -- Nursing's divided loyalties : an historical case study -- "A Necessity in the nursing world" : the Chicago Nurses Professional Registry, 1913-1950 -- The Cost of Caring : The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Visiting Nurse Service, 1909-1953 --
- Nurses : the early twentieth-century tuberculosis preventorium's "Connecting Link" -- "The Steel Cocoon" : tales of the nurses and patients of the iron lung, 1929-1955 -- Blood work: Canadian nursing and blood transfusion, 1942-1990 -- Blurring the boundaries between medicine and nursing : coronary care nursing, circa the 1960's -- Theory and practice -- The nurse-clinician -- The development of a personal concept -- Clinical nursing practices and patient outcomes : evaluation, evolution, and revolution -- Historical analysis of siderail use in American hospitals
Subjects
- Nursing -- History.
- History of Nursing -- United States.
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- History, 19th Century -- United States.
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- History, 20th Century -- United States.
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