History of Apprenticeship Nurse Training in Ireland

Name: History of Apprenticeship Nurse Training in Ireland
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ISBN: 9780415359979

ISBN-10: 041535997X

ISBN-13: 9780415359979

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gerard Fealy

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In Ireland, as in many other countries, the education and training of nurses is undergoing reform and what was a vocation is becoming a profession.A History of Apprenticeship Nurse Training in Irelandtraces the progress of nurse education, presenting a new authoritative and scholarly account of the history of the traditional system of training in Ireland. Introduced as part of the reforms of hospital nursing in the late nineteenth century, apprenticeship nurse training was a vocational extension of secondary education. It resided outside the mainstream of higher educational provision and provided nurses with the knowledge and technical skills for sick nursing. It also functioned to…

Book details

List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 12/12/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.49" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



Charity, Medical Relief, and Precursors of the Modern Nurse



'Nursing Arrangements': Nursing policy in Dublin in the late nineteenth century



Hospitals in Transition: Two case studies of nursing reform



'Exemplary Conduct and Character': The lady nurses of the Dublin hospitals



Professional Regulation and the General Nursing Council for Ireland



'Knowledge of her Work': The curriculum, c. 1899-1949



The Nursing Board and the Training Experience, 1950-1979



From the Hospital to the Academy, 1980-1994



Conclusions