Nursing and social change / by Monica E. Baly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baly, Monica E. (Monica Eileen)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing--Social aspects--History.

Nursing.

Nurses--History.

Nurses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Heinemann Medical, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<P><EM>Nursing and Social Change</EM> is essential reading for nurses who wish to understand how their profession had developed from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Now in its third edition the book has been completely revised to take into account the challenges facing nurses. Ten new chapters include contributions from senior members of the nursing profession who have been closely involved in the most recent health service reorganisation and the radical changes to nurse education. </P><P>Students and practitioners will find <EM>Nursing and Social Change</EM> invaluable as a compre

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface to the third edition; 1 Social change and attitudes to care; 2 Change and care before the Reformation; 3 The sixteenth-century transition; 4 New approaches to care; 5 The growth of hospitals in eighteenth-century England; 6 The deserving and the undeserving poor; 7 Those of unsound mind; 8 Local government and sanitary reform; 9 The influence of Florence Nightingale; 10 Nursing reforms extended; 11 Towards a health service; 12 Registration and the growth of nursing organisations

13 Social change and nursing in the inter-war years14 The legacy of the Second World War; 15 The National Health Service; 16 Adapting nursing to new demands; 17 New demands on nursing; 18 Who will nurse the patients of tomorrow?; 19 New problems for old in the community; 20 Mental health nursing-origins and developments; 21 Health at work; 22 Nurses as managers; 23 Nursing education-'Reports are not self-executive'; 24 Nursing research; 25 The road to reorganisation; 26 Nursing, economic change and industrial relations; 27 The health problems of the world

28 International and inter-regional organisationsEpilogue; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographies and index.

ISBN:

1-134-85305-X

1-134-85306-8

9786610018697

1-280-01869-0

0-203-42487-5

9780203424872

OCLC:

437078667