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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824476803321

Titolo

Nurses' work : issues across time and place / / Patricia D'Antonio ... [et al.], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer Pub., c2007

ISBN

1-281-81279-X

9786611812799

0-8261-0374-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 374 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

D'AntonioPatricia <1955->

Disciplina

610.7309

610.73

Soggetti

Nursing - History

Nursing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; SECTION 1: THOSE WHO DO NURSES' WORK; SECTION 2: NURSING'S AMBIVALENT RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY; SECTION 3: DOING NURSES' WORK; SECTION 4: WORK AND KNOWLEDGE; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.