Nursing and the privilege of prescription, 1893-2000
By: Arlene W. Keeling.
Series: Women, gender, and health
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780814210505
Subjects: Nursing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Drugs -- Prescribing -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Nursing Services -- history -- United States.; History, 19th Century -- United States.; History, 20th Century -- United States.; Nurse's Role -- history -- United States.; Prescriptions, Drug -- history -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.
Table of contents: value: Midway between the pharmacist and the physician: the work of the Henry Street settlement visiting nurses, 1893-1944; value: Practicing medicine without a license? Nurse anesthetists, 1900-1938; value: Providing care in the "hoot owl hollers": nursing, medicine, and the law in the frontier nursing service, 1925-1950; value: My treatment was castor oil and aspirin: field nursing among the Navajo in the four corners region, 1925-1955; value: Verbal orders and hospital nursing: expanding nurses' scope of practice in the mid-twentieth century; value: Nurse practitioners and the prescription pad, 1965-1980; value: Prescriptive authority for advanced practice nurses, 1980-2000.