History of the Health Sciences
A collection of reference resources related to the history of the health sciences, including medicine, dentistry, and nursing.
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Capturing Nursing History: a Guide to Historical Methods in Research by
Winner of the 2008 AJN Book of the Year Award Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 byChoice This well written and well edited book fills a unique gap.... one of the] precious few books] that focus on science or medicine and one of] even fewer that cover the history of nursing."(Three Stars)--Doody's Book Review Service While there have been many research texts in the nursing literature, and nursing history is both taught in courses and of popular interest to practicing nurses, there has never been a hands-on text that describes the process of doing historical research in nursing. This book, contributed by well-known and respected nurse historians, provides the necessary direction, guidance, and examples needed to conduct historical research. It covers such topics as historiography, biographical research, using artifacts in historical research, doing archival and other data searches, doing international historical research, and locating funding sources for historical research. Case studies will be used throughout to illustrate various methods and describe how, why, when, and where historical research is used in nursing. Features of this edition: Provides direction and tools for conducting historical research Describes types of research, including biographical and oral histories Covers frameworks used to study historical events, such as social, political, feminist, intellectual, and cultural Addresses contemporary issues such as preserving and storing digitalized and tape-recorded data and obtaining institutional review board (IRB) approval for research, and addressing ethical and legal issues in historical research Includes case studies that provide a "how-to" guide to conducting research
ISBN: 9780826115669Publication Date: 2007-11-01
Historical Encyclopedia of Nursing by
This unique reference work traces the story of nursing from Roman times to the present, including the evolution of military nursing. The book's numerous biographies of health care pioneers include many first-person narratives and eyewitness accounts, from Mother Teresa to Walt Whitman. A timeline of landmarks in nursing offers a concise overview of the profession, and the book also includes a detailed bibliography and index. * Numerous biographies of healthcare pioneers, including many first-person narratives and eyewitness accounts, from Mother Teresa to Walt Whitman * Provides a timeline of landmarks, a detailed bibliography, and a comprehensive index
ISBN: 1576070867Publication Date: 1999-10-25
A History of Nursing Ideas by
This text is a comprehensive coverage of concepts critical to the dvelopment of the nursing role: philosophy, nature of nursing, ways of knowing, influences on the development of the nursing profession, history and nature of nursing science, evolution of nursing practice and education.
ISBN: 0763722898Publication Date: 2005-10-12
Nurses' Work: Issues Across Time and Place by
Designated a Doody's Core Title Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award Every nursing student and practicing nurse would benefit from reading this book." Score: 91, 4 stars --Doody's The excerpts taken from original writings and events provide readers with a sneak peak into a forgotten world....This book is a must for anyone in the nursing profession. Essential. All levels.--Choice With contributions from some of the most renowned nursing scholars and historians, the real-life history of how nurses worked and how they endured the ever-changing economic, social, educational, and technological milieus is presented in a captivating collection of articles. Through time and place, experts chronicle the rich variety of nurses' work by presenting actual accounts of clinical practice experiences. Tracing the evolution of nursing from the role as family caregiver to roles in clinical practice today, the contributors approach this history by focusing on four thematic categories: Who does the work of nursing? Who pays for the work of nursing? What is the real work of nursing? How have our nursing predecessors struggled with the relationship between work and knowledge? Nurses' Work, provides an incredible collection of significant historical scholarship and contemporary themes that encourages us to understand and think these questions and the future of nursing.
ISBN: 0826102115Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Nursing Before Nightingale, 1815-1899 (eBook) by
Nursing Before Nightingale is a study of the transformation of nursing in England from the beginning of the nineteenth century until the emergence of the Nightingale nurse as the standard model in the 1890s. From the nineteenth century on historians have considered Florence Nightingale, with her training school established at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1860, the founder of modern nursing. This book investigates two major earlier reforms in nursing: a doctor-driven reform which came to be called the 'ward system,' and the reforms of the Anglican Sisters, known as the 'central system' of nursing. Rather than being the beginning of nursing reform, Nightingale nursing was the culmination of these two earlier reforms.
ISBN: 1317086473Publication Date: 2016-05-23
100 Years of American Nursing by
Commemorating the first century of publishing the American Journal of Nursing, this outstanding pictorial volume chronicles the dynamic relationship between the nursing profession and the culture at large. Over 400 photographs and anecdotes from the pages of AJN, the American Red Cross and other repositories of nursing history were selected to document nursing's struggle from handmaiden to specialist, from training programs to graduate education, and from apprenticeship to evidence-based practice and teaching. Eighteen contemporary nursing leaders add their insightful perspectives on issues that have affected the nursing profession throughout this century. 100 Years of American Nursing: Celebrating a Century of Caring is a testament to the dramatic progress that American nurses have achieved and the perfect gift to give yourself, a friend, or a colleague.
ISBN: 0781718651Publication Date: 1999-04-20
A History of American Nursing by
A History of American Nursing: Trends and Eras is the first comprehensive nursing history text to be published in years. It provides a historical overview essential to developing a complete understanding of the nursing profession. For each key era of U.S. history, nursing is examined in the context of the sociopolitical climate of the day, the image of nurses, nursing education, advances in practice, war and its effect on nursing, licensure and regulation, and nursing research and its implications. From early nursing to Nightingale's influence, through two world wars to today, this text engages students in an exploration of nursing's past while connecting it to nursing practice in the present.A History of American Nursing: Trends and Eras is designed to inform and empower today's student nurses as they help to create the future of nursing.
ISBN: 9780763759513Publication Date: 2009-03-19
American Nursing: A History by
Now in its newly revised Fourth Edition, this well-illustrated history of nursing in America is a classic among nursing historians. American Nursing: A History, Fourth Edition is the only comprehensive text on the market devoted to the history of nursing in the United States. For this edition, a new chapter addresses the past ten years’ developments in the profession—including an exploration of the nursing shortage—and projects key nursing trends for the future. Also new illustrations are found throughout the book as approximately 50 percent of the previous edition’s illustrations have been replaced with new images.
ISBN: 0781739691Publication Date: 2003-10-27
American Nursing: a History of Knowledge, Authority, And the Meaning of Work by
The vignettes in this book provoke images of nurses not as powerless but rather as strong, often independent, women who take life fully into their own hands.
ISBN: 9780801895647Publication Date: 2010-06-02
Enduring Issues in American Nursing by
Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2001 by Choice 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.
ISBN: 0826113737Publication Date: 2000-12-01
No Time for Prejudice by
Published in 1961 by Mabel Keaton Staupers, R.N., details the story of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. With the leadership of Staupers & others, the org broke down racial barriers in nursing and healthcare
Publication Date: 1961
- Oregon State Graduate Nurses' Association History by
Typescript history of association
Publication Date: 1946
- Twenty Years of the Portland Visiting Nurse Association: 1902-1921, Incorporated 1913 by
Typewritten short history
Publication Date: 1921
Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession by ISBN: 1930538197Publication Date: 2007-04-01- The Battle of the Nurses: a Study of Eight Women Who Influenced the Development of Professional Nursing, 1880-1930 by ISBN: 9781871364620Publication Date: 1992
