Nurses' Work: Issues Across Time and Place - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826102115 ISBN 13: 9780826102119

Publisher: Springer Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

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 milieu is presented in a captivating collection of articles. Through time and place, experts chronicle nurses' work by presenting actual accounts of clinical practice experiences. Depicting their relationships with family, patients and their community, the collection follows the evolution of nursing from the role as family caregiver to public nursing work today. Some of the historical events presented provide fascinating insight and include: the economic implications of nursing work as a viable career; the distinction between the nurse practitioner and other care giving fields; evolution of male caregivers to clinical practice nurses; contributions and reform made by black community nurses; and nurses' relationship with technology.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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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.

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From the Inside Flap

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 milieu is presented in a captivating collection of articles. Through time and place, experts chronicle nurses' work by presenting actual accounts of clinical practice experiences. Depicting their relationships with family, patients and their community, the collection follows the evolution of nursing from the role as family caregiver to public nursing work today. Some of the historical events presented provide fascinating insight and include: * The economic implications of nursing work as a viable career * The distinction between the nurse practitioner and other care giving fields * Evolution of male caregivers to clinical practice nurses * Contributions and reform made by black community nurses * Nurses' relationship with technology Nurses' Work, provides an incredible collection of significant historical scholarship and contemporary themes that encourage us to understand and think about the future of nursing for years to come.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826102115
• ISBN 13: 9780826102119
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: D'Antonio Patricia, Baer Ellen D., Rinker Sylvia, Lynaugh Joan E.