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Nursing, the finest art: an illustrated history
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From the Book - Third edition
unit 1. The origin of nursing. Nursing and human caring -- Nursing: the seed of early community service -- Care of the sick among primitive people -- Ancient civilizations -- The Near East : Egypt ; Persia (Iran) ; The Fertile Crescent -- The Far East : India ; China -- The Mediterranean world : Greece ; Rome -- The Far West : The Americas -- unit 2. Nursing in a Christian world. The dawn of Christianity -- The Christian motive and nursing -- The early Christian era: AD 1-500 : Deaconesses ; Widows and virgins ; Roman matrons ; Men in nursing ; Physicians and medicine ; Hospitals -- The early Middle Ages (Dark Ages): AD 500-1000 : Feudalism ; Monasticism ; Monastic nurses ; Islamism ; School of Salerno ; Medieval hospitals -- The late Middle Ages: AD 1000-1500 : Guilds ; The Crusades ; The rise of mendicant orders ; Secular nursing orders ; The growth of hospitals ; Medicine in the late Middle Ages -- unit 3. Nursing in transition. Renaissance and Reformation : The Renaissance ; The Reformation -- The age of revolutions : The political revolution ; The economic revolution ; The Industrial Revolution ; The intellectual revolution -- New directions in medicine : The new anatomy ; Three centuries of progress ; Obstetrics and infant welfare ; Disease and epidemics -- Hospitals and reformers : Hospital decay ; The English scene ; Religious nursing orders -- Humanitarian efforts -- Social reforms and nursing : The birth of modern nursing ; The Nightingale revolution ; The birth of the Red Cross --
unit 4. The development of nursing in America. Settlements of the New World : Spanish America ; The French in America ; The English colonies -- Hospital development in America -- Medicine in the colonies -- Religious nursing orders in America -- The evolution of schools of nursing : First instruction for nurses ; The Nightingale plan in American schools ; Canadian schools -- Educational advancement for graduate nursing -- Advancing toward new frontiers -- The turn of the century : Visiting nursing ; The Henry Street Settlement ; The frontier nursing service ; The status of women -- The rise of organized nursing : Organizations for nurses -- A new look for organized nursing -- The campaign for legislation and registration -- Educational trends and development -- Studies of nursing and nursing education : Nursing and nursing education in the United States ; (The Goldmark Report of 1923) ; Studies by the Committee on the Grading of Nursing Schools ; Curriculum studies and reports ; Nursing for the future (1948) ; Nursing schools at the mid-century (1950) ; Canadian studies -- The status of nursing studies -- unit 5. Nurses during war. Nursing during the Civil War (1861-1865) : United States Sanitary Commission ; Dorothea Lyne Dix ; Clara Barton ; Volunteer nurses -- Nursing during the Spanish-American War -- Wars of the 20th century -- World War I : Vassar Training Camp ; The Army School of Nursing ; Nursing at the front -- World War II : The United States Cadet Nurse Corps ; Nursing at the front ; The Nurse Draft Bill -- The Korean War -- The Vietnam War -- At war in the Persian Gulf -- War and conflict across the globe -- Iraq: first major war of the new millennium -- In honor of ... -- unit 6. Nursing in an era of change and challenge. The hospital scene : The managed care revolution ; Case management and critical paths -- The changing scene in nursing -- Nursing research -- Nursing theory : Educational advancement ; The age of specialization -- Continued growth of organizations : National Black Nurses Association ; American Association of Colleges of Nursing ; American Academy of Nursing ; Nurses Coalition for Action in Politics ; American Association for the History of Nursing --
unit 7. The nursing transformation. The nursing perspective: the state of the art
In the new millennium : The forces at work
The practice arena : Advanced practice nursing ; Magnet recognition program ; Community nursing centers and clinics
Standardized languages and classification systems
Nursing research : Evidence-based practice
Redesigning nursing education : Clinical nurse leader ; Doctor of nursing practice
Nursing in the shadows
Looking ahead
unit 8. The healing spirit of nursing. The information revolution : The field of informatics ; Nursing informatics ; Electronic health record
Technology and nursing : Technology in nursing education ; Distance education ; Clinical simulation
Nurse inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs : Nurse inventions ; Nursing entrepreneurs
Nursing and politics
Nursing: a caring and healing profession : Complementary and alternative medicine ; Nurses and holism
unit 9. A global view of nursing and healthcare. World health issues : Advocacy revisited ; Ethical concerns ; Diseases and epidemics ; Disasters and catastrophes ; The aging population ; The genetics revolution
Worldwide nursing : Health for all: primary health care ; International nursing educational programs ; Organizational efforts ; The global scene
unit 10. Epilogue.
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9781778533006
032305305
9780801614248
9780323053051
032305305
9780801614248
9780323053051
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