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Enduring Issues in American Nursing
Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001 by Choice! Why turn to the past when attempting to build nursing's future?...To make good decisions in planning nursing's future in the context of our complex health care system, nurses must know the history of the actions being considered, the identities and points of view of the major players, and all the stakes that are at risk. These are the lessons of history." -- from the Introduction This book presents nursing history in the context of problems and issues that persist to this day. Issues such as professional autonomy, working conditions, relationships with other health professionals, appropriate knowledge for education and licensure, gender, class, and race are traced through the stories told in this volume. Each chapter provides a piece of the puzzle that is nursing. The editors, all noted nurse historians and educators, have carefully made selections from the best that has been published in the nursing and health care literature.
Critical Care Nursing
"A comprehensive, multifaceted book of astounding scope."--Bulletin of the History of Medicine
A Contemporary History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps
Mary T. Sarnecky, who had first-hand knowledge about U.S. Army Nurse Corps inner workings as an active duty officer, presents her analysis documenting U.S. Army Nurse Corps from the early 1970s to the beginning of the 21st century in the Borden Institute's latest release, A Contemporary History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. She addresses a remarkable episode in the organization's evolution, a period characterized by a series of progressive steps empowering Nurse Corps officers to assume key command and leadership positions in Army Medical Department. "It is imperative that we review the "lessons learned" from this period in our nursing history and utilize the experiences, knowledge, and lead...
Notes on Nightingale
Florence Nightingale remains an inspiration to nurses around the world for her pioneering work treating wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War; authorship of Notes on Nursing, the foundational text for nursing practice; establishment of the world's first nursing school; and advocacy for the hygienic treatment of patients and sanitary design of hospitals. In Notes on Nightingale, nursing historians and scholars offer their valuable reflections on Nightingale and analysis of her role in the profession a century after her death on 13 August 1910 and 150 years since the Nightingale School of Nursing (now the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King's College, London)...
Indian Sisters
Health and medicine cannot be understood without considering the role of nurses, both as professionals and as working women. In India, unlike other countries, nurses have suffered an exceptional degree of neglect at the hands of state, a situation that has been detrimental to the quality of both rural and urban health care. Charting the history of the development of nursing in India over 100 years, Indian Sisters examines the reasons why nurses have so consistently been sidelined and excluded from health care governance and policymaking. The book challenges the routine suggestion that nursing’s poor status is mainly attributable to socio-cultural factors, such as caste, limitations on fema...
Dr. Nurse
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 U.S. 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 reveals how federal and state health and higher education policies shaped education within health professions after World War II. Starting in the 1950s, academic nurses sought to construct a science of nursing—disti...
Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription, 1893-2000
Its 1877, and Lily has made her way alone for many years. Her love of books has earned her a place in one of the many frontier theater companies that the railroad has made possible. Now her company has been engaged to play at the finest new theater in San Francisco, for an indefinite run of Hamlet. But Lily cannot leave her past behind. On the train to San Francisco she encounters the railroad detective Brand. Brand is searching for the man who sent a death threat to the head of the Southern Pacific railroad; and that man may be a member of Lilys company.
Pictures of Health
From the days of its colonial glory, Philadelphia has had an important place in the history of American health care. In Pictures of Health, Janet Golden and Charles E. Rosenberg have assembled a series of photographs illuminating that history.
