Enduring Issues in American Nursing

by Baer, Ellen D.

• ISBN13: 9780826113733
• ISBN10: 0826113737
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

"Why turn to the past when attempting to build nursing's future?...To make good decisions in planning nursing's future in the context of our complex health care system, nurses must know the history of the actions being considered, the identities and points of view of the major players, and all the stakes that are at risk. These are the lessons of history." -- from the Introduction This book presents nursing history in the context of problems and issues that persist to this day. Issues such as professional autonomy, working conditions, relationships with other health professionals, appropriate knowledge for education and licensure, gender, class, and race are traced through the stories told in this volume. Each chapter provides a piece of the puzzle that is nursing. The editors, all noted nurse historians and educators, have carefully made selections from the best that has been published in the nursing and health care literature.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Section 1: Contemporary Issues in Historical Context
Introduction	3	(7)
Ellen D. Baer
Nursing's History: Looking Backward and Seeing Forward	10	(15)
Joan E. Lynaugh
The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender in the Nursing Profession	25	(17)
Darlene Clark Hine
Section 2: Identity: The Meaning of Nursing
Introduction	39	(3)
Joan E. Lynaugh
Isabel Hampton and the Professionalization of Nursing in the 1890s	42	(43)
Janet Wilson James
Discipline, Obedience, and Female Support Groups: Mona Wilson at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing, 1915--1918	85	(21)
Douglas O. Baldwin
To Cultivate a Feeling of Confidence: The Nursing of Obstetric Patients, 1890--1940	106	(24)
Sylvia Rinker
Midwives as Wives and Mothers: Urban Midwives in the Early Twentieth Century	130	(20)
Linda V. Walsh
Section 3: The Nature of Power and Authority in Nursing
Introduction	147	(3)
Patricia O. D'Antonio
Aspirations Unattained: The Story of the Illinois Training School's Search for University Status	150	(15)
Ellen D. Baer
Guarded by Standards and Directed by Strangers: Charleston, South Carolina's Response to a National Health Care Agenda, 1920--1930	165	(15)
Karen Buhler-Wilkerson
``Strange Young Women on Errands'': Obstetric Nursing Between Two Worlds	180	(21)
Judith Walzer Leavitt
The Physician's Eyes: American Nursing and the Diagnostic Revolution in Medicine	201	(39)
Margarete Sandelowski
Section 4: The Nature of Nursing Knowledge
Introduction	237	(3)
Joan E. Lynaugh
Constructing the Mind of Nursing	240	(22)
Diane Hamilton
A Legitimate Relationship: Nursing, Hospitals, and Science in the Twentieth Century	262	(20)
Susan M. Reverby
Lavinia Lloyd Dock: The Henry Street Years	282	(27)
Carole A. Estabrooks
Delegated by Default or Negotiated by Need?: Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and the Process of Clinical Thinking	309	(31)
Julie Fairman
Section 5: Conclusion
Conclusion	337	(3)
Sylvia D. Rinker
Revisiting and Rethinking the Rewriting of Nursing History	340	(21)
Patricia O. D'Antonio
Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading	361	(4)
Index	365