Nursing rural America
Subtitle: perspectives from the early 20th century
By: John C. Kirchgessner, PhD, RN, PNP, Arlene Keeling,  PhD, RN, FAAN, editors
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, LLC
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780826196149; 9780826196156
Subjects: Rural Nursing; History; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Town and country nursing : community participation and nurse recruitment / Sandra B. Lewenson; title: Public nursing in rural Wisconsin : stretched beyond health instruction / Rima D. Apple; title: School nursing in Virginia : hookworm, tooth decay and tonsillectomies / Mary E. Gibson; title: Nursing in the Schoolfield Mill Village : cotton and welfare / Sarah White Craig; title: Care in the coal fields : promoting health through sanitation and nutrition / John C. Kirchgessner; title: Mary Breckenridge and the frontier nursing service : saddlebags and swinging bridges / Anne Z. Cockerham; title: Migrant nursing in the Great Depression : shantytowns and suitcase camps / Arlene W. Keeling; title: Nursing in West Texas : trains, tumbleweeds, and rattlesnakes / Melissa McIntire Sherrod; title: Nursing the Navajo : dust storms and gully washouts / Arlene W. Keeling.