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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778815003321

Titolo

History as evidence [[electronic resource] ] : nursing interventions through time / / [edited by] Patricia D'Antonio, Sandra B. Lewenson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2011

ISBN

1-78268-130-2

1-280-12872-0

9786613532602

0-8261-0578-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

D'AntonioPatricia <1955->

LewensonSandra

Disciplina

610.73

Soggetti

Nursing - History

Evidence-based nursing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sweating, purging, and a passion for care : the yellow fever nurse in the deep South in the early nineteenth century / Linda Sabin -- Determining children's "best interests" in the midst of an epidemic : a cautionary tale from history / Cynthia Anne Connolly -- Treating influenza 1918 and 2010 : recycled interventions / Arlene W. Keeling -- "An obstinate and sometimes gangrenous sore" : prevention and nursing care of bedsores, 1900 to the 1940s / Helen Zuelzer -- Body, soul, and service : Catholic sister-nurses in late nineteenth and early twentieth century hospitals / Barbara Mann Wall -- Bridging the gaps : collaborative health work in the City of Brotherly Love, 1900-1920 / J. Margo Brooks Carthon -- Filling the gaps in community care : parish nurses working out of congregations / Lisa Zerull -- Obstetric nursing : for the patient or the doctor? / Sylvia Rinker -- Nursing patients with cancer in the 1950s : new issues and old challenges / Brigid Lusk -- Trial and negotiation in a technological system : case study of the Swan-Ganz catheter / Kathleen G. Burke -- Black Canadian nurses and technology / Karen Flynn -- To avoid expense and suffering : public health nurses and the struggle for health services / Rima Apple -- The



visit : nurse practitioners and the negotiation of practice / Julie Fairman -- Nursing the borderlands of life : hospice and the politics of health care reform / Joy Buck.

Sommario/riassunto

Designated a Doody's Core Title!. ""This is a must-read for nurses who are interested in where nursing has been and what nurses have done to get to the present day. "" Score: 94, 4 stars. --Doody's. Nursing has a rich history that consistently informs contemporary practice and standards. This book, by examining pivotal historical interventions across the spectrum of clinical care, allows nurses of today to incorporate the wisdom of the past into their own daily work. Maternal-child health programs, palliative care, tuberculosis, medications, pediatric care, and diabetes care, and more are disc