Product Description: 2011 AJN Book of the Year Winner in Critical Care--Emergency Nursing! [This book is] a lavishly detailed guide to the essence of becoming an expert nurse...I believe this book will secure a place on most educators' and expert clinicians' bookshelves...read more

Product Description: This book, published by the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, provides a detailed account of the interplay between a philanthropy focused on investing its resources in people and a professional field whose mission is caring for people...read more

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. Includes information on African American men, black nurses, blood transfusion, cardiac nurses, Jessie Sleet, Elizabeth Tyler, Edith Carter, deep South, Haley Fiske, Lee Frankel, Emily Hawley Gillespie, Great Depression, Alma Haupt, Virginia Henderson, Lawrence E. Meltzer, midwives, National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP), nursing care plans, nursing education, nursing shortage, patient centered care, polio, private duty nursing, public health nursing, training schools, LucyVan Frank, Lilliam Wald, yellow fever, etc.

Product Description: Long neglected, the history of nursing has recently become the focus of a considerable amount of attention. Over the past decade, developments in the history of medicine, the history of women ó particularly of women's work ó and nursing itself have resulted in a new recognition of the importance of the subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "Long neglected, the history of nursing has recently become the focus of a considerable amount of attention. Over the past decade, developments in the history of medicine, the history of women ó particularly of women's work ó and nursing itself have resulted in a new recognition of the importance of the subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Critical Care Nursing traces the evolution of critical care nursing from battlefields and the hospital recovery rooms of earlier decades to the modern units of today. It also discusses the social, political, and economic factors that have led to its growth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history...read more

Product Description: Published to celebrate the International Council of Nurses' Centennial and Conference in July of 1999, this thought-provoking book highlights the ICN's traditions, history, growth, and contributions to the nursing community worldwide...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: American nurses have changed in the last generation. This transformation is manifested in their education, clinical responsibility, and in the huge increase in their numbers relative to the population. During recent decades the scope of nurses' practice expanded to include many new responsibilities, including work formerly in the province of physicians, as well as entirely new functions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing

Product Description: The official journal of the American Association for the History of Nursing

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