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Army, where she served as head nurse of an amputee ward and on a floating hospital in the Pacific Ocean; to Sweden, where Schwartz visited her rural patients by bicycle; to the Frontier Nursing Service in rural Kentucky, where many patients could only be reached by horseback. Schwartz went on to Cornell University and later to the University of Pennsylvania, where she spent many satisfying years as a nurse educator, researcher, and writer.
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An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II. Nurses represent the largest segment of the US health care workforce and spend significantly more time with patients than any other member of the health care team. Dr. Nurse probes their history to examine major changes that have taken place in American health care in the second half of the twentieth century. The book examines the major changes in nursing education and the place of nursing in the post-war research university, revealing how federal and state health and higher education policies shaped education within health professio...
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