Enduring Issues in American Nursing

Name: Enduring Issues in American Nursing
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ISBN: 9780826113733

ISBN-10: 0826113737

ISBN-13: 9780826113733

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ellen D. Baer

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"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…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.06" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Contributors
Preface
Contemporary Issues in Historical Context
Introduction	p. 3
Nursing's History: Looking Backward and Seeing Forward	p. 10
The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender in the Nursing Profession	p. 25
Identity: The Meaning of Nursing
Introduction	p. 39
Isabel Hampton and the Professionalization of Nursing in the 1890s	p. 42
Discipline, Obedience, and Female Support Groups: Mona Wilson at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, 1915-1918	p. 85
To Cultivate a Feeling of Confidence: The Nursing of Obstetric Patients, 1890-1940	p. 106
Midwives as Wives and Mothers: Urban Midwives in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 130
The Nature of Power and Authority in Nursing
Introduction	p. 147
Aspirations Unattained: The Story of the Illinois Training School's Search for University Status	p. 150
Guarded by Standards and Directed by Strangers: Charleston, South Carolina's Response to a National Health Care Agenda, 1920-1930	p. 165
"Strange Young Women on Errands": Obstetric Nursing Between Two Worlds	p. 180
The Physician's Eyes: American Nursing and the Diagnostic Revolution in Medicine	p. 201
The Nature of Nursing Knowledge
Introduction	p. 237
Constructing the Mind of Nursing	p. 240
A Legitimate Relationship: Nursing, Hospitals, and Science in the Twentieth Century	p. 262
Lavinia Lloyd Dock: The Henry Street Years	p. 282
Delegated by Default or Negotiated by Need?: Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and the Process of Clinical Thinking	p. 309
Conclusion
Conclusion	p. 337
Revisiting and Rethinking the Rewriting of Nursing History	p. 340
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 361
Index	p. 365
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