Nurses' Work
Subtitle: Issues Across Time And Place
Contributors: Patricia D'Antonio (Editor); Ellen Davidson Baer (Editor); Sylvia D., R. N. Rinker (Editor); Joan E. Lynaugh (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; Springer Pub.
Published: September 11, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780826102119
Subjects: History of medicine; Nursing; History; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Nursing - Issues; History of Nursing; United States
Description: 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.