Pre-Owned A History of American Nursing : Trends and Eras (Paperback)

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 Nightingales influence, through two world wars to today, this text engages students in an exploration of nursings past while connecting it to nursing practice in the present. Basic understanding of nursing history is essential in the development of mature appreciation and understanding of the nursing profession associated with foundation level core content areas that include nursing theory, research, community health, policy and politics, management, and ethics This nursing history textbook engages instructors and students in an exploration of nursing-related trends associated with specific time periods in American history. This text focuses on historical trends in nursing that emerged in the United States from the mid 1800s to the present time, informing and empowering today's student nurses as they help to create future nursing history.