Nurses' Work

by D'Antonio, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780826102119
• ISBN10: 0826102115
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Provides a collection of nursing articles on the work of nursing. Topics include family caregiving in the nineteenth century, the legacy of domesticity, male caregivers in the nineteenth-century South, tales of the nurses and patients of the Iron lung, and more. For nurses.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

Introduction, Patricia D'Antonio

Part I: Those Who do Nurses' Work

1. Introduction, Patricia D'Antonio

2. Family Caregiving in the Nineteenth Century: Emily Hawley Gillespie and Sarah Gillespie, 1858-1888, Emily K. Abel

3. The Legacy of Domesticity: Nursing in Early Nineteenth Century America, Patricia D'Antonio

4. Unheralded Nurses: Male Caregivers in the Nineteenth Century South, Linda E. Sabin

5. "Satisfied to Carry the Bag": Three Black Community Health Nurses' Contributions to Health Care Reform, 1900-1937, Marie O. Pitts Mosley

Part II: Nurses Ambivalent Relationship with Money

6. Introduction, Ellen D. Baer

7. A Sound Economic Basis for Nursing, Mary Adelaide Nutting

8. Nursing's Divided House - An Historical View, Ellen D. Baer

9. "A Necessity in the Nursing World": The Chicago Professional Registry, 1913-1959, Jean C. Whelan

10. The Cost of Caring: The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's Visiting Nurse Service, 1900-1953, Diane Hamilton

Part III: Nurses' Work

11. Introduction, Sylvia D. Rinker

12. Nurses: The Early Twentieth Century Tuberculosis Preventorium's "Connecting Link," Cynthia A. Connolly

13. "The Steel Cocoon:" Tales of Nurses and Patients of the Iron Lung, 1929-1955, Lynne M. Dunphy

14. Alternative Visions: The Nurse-Technology Relationship in the Context of the History of Technology, Julie Fairman

15. Blood Work: Canadian Nursing and Blood Transfusion, 1942-1990, Cynthia Toman

Part IV: Work and Knowledge

16. Introduction, Joan E. Lynaugh

17. Theory and Practice, Agnes S. Brennen

18. The Nurse-Clinician, Frances Reiter

19. The Development of a Personal Concept, Virginia A. Henderson

20. Clinical Nursing Practices and Patient Outcomes: Evaluation, Evolution, and Revolution, Margaret D. Sovie

21. Historical Analysis of Siderail Use in American Hosptials, Barbara L. Brush and Elizabeth Capezuti