Nursing Interventions Through Time : History as Evidence / [edited by] Patricia D'Antonio, Sandra B. Lewenson.

Nursing Interventions Through Time: History as Evidence; Half Title Page; Author Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; INTRODUCTION TO THE CHAPTERS; NURSING INTERVENTIONS: PROVIDING CARE; NURSING INTERVENTIONS: OFFERING SERVICE; NURSING INTERVENTIONS: INFLUENCING CHANGE; NURSING INTERVENTIONS: NEGOTIATING SPACE; Section I: NURSING INTERVENTIONS: PROVIDING CARE; Chapter 1: Sweating, Purging, and a Passion for Care: The Yellow Fever Nurse in the Deep South in the Early Nineteenth Century; THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE DISEASE.

DOMESTIC AND COMMUNITY NURSES IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURYDOMESTIC NURSES; COMMUNITY NURSES; CONCLUSION; Chapter 2: Determining Children's "Best Interests" in the Midst of an Epidemic: A Cautionary Tale From History; INTRODUCTION; THE "WHITE PLAGUE": AN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS; THE 1908 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON TUBERCULOSIS; NURSES AND THE PREVENTORIUM; CONCLUSION: UNDERSTANDING EVIDENCE IN "REAL TIME"; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 3: Treating Influenza 1918 and 2010: Recycled Interventions; H1N1 FLU SURGE STARTS FULL THROTTLE ... HOSPITALS UNDER SIEGE.

THE 1918 FLUHOSPITAL OVERFLOW; PUBLIC HEALTH AND VISITING NURSING; NURSING TREATMENTS; "CONTAGIOUS NURSING" AND MASKS; HEALTH EDUCATION; ISOLATION AND QUARANTINES; CONCLUSION; Chapter 4: "An Obstinate and Sometimes Gangrenous Sore": Prevention and Nursing Care of Bedsores, 1900 to the 1940s; BEDSORES AND NURSING ACCOUNTABILITY; PREVENTION OF BEDSORES; TREATMENT OF BEDSORES; CONCLUSION; Section II: NURSING INTERVENTIONS: OFFERING SERVICE; Chapter 5: Body, Soul, and Service: Catholic Sister-Nurses in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Hospitals; INTRODUCTION.

CATHOLIC HOSPITAL ESTABLISHMENT, 1849-1911SPIRITUAL AGENTS OF CARE; BOTH SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS NURSING PRACTICES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; Chapter 6: Bridging the Gaps: Collaborative Health Work in the City of Brotherly Love, 1900-1920; INTRODUCTION; THE PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT OF BLACKS IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHILADELPHIA; THE "BLACK HEALTH CRISIS," SELF-HELP, AND COMMUNITY HEALTH ACTIVISM; RACE, PLACE, AND NURSING; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 7: Filling the Gaps in Community Care: Parish Nurses Working Out of Congregations; INTRODUCTION.

THE SETTING OF BALTIMORE IN THE 1890STHE LUTHERAN DEACONESS NURSE; BALTIMORE DEACONESS SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY; PARISH DEACONESSES; IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE TODAY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Section III: NURSING INTERVENTIONS: INFLUENCING CHANGE; Chapter 8: Obstetric Nursing: For the Patient or the Doctor?; INTRODUCTION; RECRUITMENT OF THE NURSE; NURSES AND PHYSICIANS: A USEFUL ALLIANCE; THE PROMISE OF SAFE AND PAINLESS DELIVERIES; OPERATIVE INTERVENTIONS FOR BIRTH; CONFLICT: MANAGING THE SYSTEM AND SUSTAINING THE PATIENT; THE NURSE'S POINT OF VIEW; WHAT TO DO WITH THE EVIDENCE?

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Designated a Doody's Core Title!. "This is a must-read for nurses who are interested in where nursing has been and what nurses have done to get to the present day." Score: 94, 4 stars. --Doody's. Nursing has a rich history that consistently informs contemporary practice and standards. This book, by examining pivotal historical interventions across the spectrum of clinical care, allows nurses of today to incorporate the wisdom of the past into their own daily work. Maternal-child health programs, palliative care, tuberculosis, medications, pediatric care, and diabetes care, and more.

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