History of American nursing
Subtitle: trends and eras
By: Deborah Judd, Kathleen Sitzman
Contributors: Sitzman, Kathleen, author
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Burlington, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9781449694401
Subjects: History of Nursing; History, Modern 1601-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : seven trends in nursing; title: Reflections : the study of nursing history; title: The study of nursing : research and historical sources; title: Nursing in the American colonies from the 1600s to the 1700s : the influence of past ideas, traditions, and trends; title: Prelude to modern American nursing : the work of Florence Nightingale; title: Nursing in the United States during the 1800s : inspiration and insight lead to nursing reforms; title: Nursing in the United States from 1900 to the early 1920s : a new century brings novel ideas and social concerns; title: Nursing in the United States from the 1920s to the early 1940s : education rather than training for nurses; title: Nursing in the United States from the 1940s to the early 1960s : professionalism, educational reformation, and acceptance of minority nurses; title: Nursing in the United States from 1960 to the early 1980s : decades of change-regional conflict, segregation, and specialization; title: Nursing in the United States from the 1980s to 2000 : opportunity, technology, autonomy, and globalization; title: Envision the future of nursing in the twenty-first century prospect : national healthcare reform, nurse significance, and magnitude.