American Nursing: From Hospitals to Health Systems
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (881 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1577180461 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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She edits Nursing History Review, the official journal of the American Association of the History of Nursing, and has served for fourteen years on the Board of Trustees of the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia, where she is still vice chair. Barbara L. Lynaugh, PhD, FAAN, is Professor Emeritus, School of Nursing, and Associate Director, Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. Brush, PhD, RNC, i
tck said Classic. A "must-have" for U.S. nurse historians. Well-written and easy to read. Highlights of U.S. nursing history. Excellent resource for historians. A must-have for those wanting to set their nurisng history work in context.
As health care systems organize to emphasize care in the community, the home, and other alternative settings, the centrality of the hospital to the system and to nursing will probably be diminished. Until the publication of this book, no single secondary source reported on this highly eventful era in nursing. This transformation is manifested in their education, clinical responsibility, and in the huge increase in their numbers relative to the population. Today the term nurse encompasses a wider and more complex spectrum of individual academic attainment and practice than was true in 1950. A rapidly growing professional literature and a barrage of commissioned studies of nursing, however, provided ample material for reconsiderat
A rapidly growing professional literature and a barrage of commissioned studies of nursing, however, provided ample material for reconsideration and analysis of the linkages between nursing and hospitals. Until the publication of this book, no single secondary source reported on this highly eventful era in nursing. This transformation is manifested in their education, clinical responsibility, and in the huge increase in their numbers relative to the population. American nurses have changed in the last generation. In the 1980s nurses began to be much better paid relative to previous decades and to other workers. As health care systems organize to emphasize care in the community, the home, and other alternative settings, the centrality of the hospital to the system and to nursing will probably be diminished. Today the term nurse encompasses a wider and m