Critical Care Nursing
Subtitle: A History (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving)
Contributors: Gladys M. Campbell (Foreword); Barbara Siebeit (Foreword)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780812215366
Subjects: History of medicine; Intensive Care Nursing; Medical / Nursing; Medical; History; Nursing - Critical & Intensive care; Medical / Nursing / Critical & Intensive Care
First sentence: During the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the essential elements of patient needs, growing medical knowledge, increased governmental funding, and changing societal values came together to stimulate a radical and sometimes chaotic reorganization of nursing care in hospitals.