Nursing Interventions Through Time: History As Evidence

by D'Antonio, Patricia, Ph.D., R.N.

• ISBN13: 9780826105776
• ISBN10: 0826105777
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: SPRINGER PUB CO INC

Summary

Nursing has a rich history that consistently informs contemporary practice and standards. This book, by examining pivotal historical intervention across the spectrum of clinical care, allows nurses of today to incorporate the wisdom of the past into their own daily work. Maternal-child health programs, palliative care, tuberculosis, medications, pediatric care, diabetes care, and more are discussed.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Nursing Interventions: Providing Care
Sweating, Purging, and a Passion for Care: The Yellow Fever Nurse in the Deep South in the Early Nineteenth Century	p. 3
Determining Children's "Best Interests" in the Midst of an Epidemic: A Cautionary Tale From History	p. 17
Treating Influenza 1918 and 2010: Recycled Interventions	p. 31
"An Obstinate and Sometimes Gangrenous Sore": Prevention and Nursing Care of Bedsores, 1900 to the 1940s	p. 43
Nursing Interventions: Offering Service
Body, Soul, and Service: Catholic Sister-Nurses in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Hospitals	p. 61
Bridging the Gaps: Collaborative Health Work in the City of Brotherly Love, 1900-1920	p. 75
Filling the Gaps in Community Care: Parish Nurses Working Out of Congregations	p. 89
Nursing Interventions: Influencing Change
Obstetric Nursing: For the Patient or the Doctor?	p. 109
Nursing Patients With Cancer in the 1950s: New Issues and Old Challenges	p. 123
Trial and Negotiation in a Technological System: Case Study of the Swan-Ganz Catheter	p. 139
Black Canadian Nurses and Technology	p. 153
Nursing Interventions: Negotiating Space
To Avoid Expense and Suffering: Public Health Nurses and the Struggle for Health Services	p. 173
The Visit: Nurse Practitioners and the Negotiation of Practice	p. 189
Nursing the Borderlands of Life: Hospice and the Politics of Health Care Reform	p. 203
Index	p. 221
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