Nursing the nation : building the nurse labor force / Jean C. Whelan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whelan, Jean C. (Jean Catherine), author.

Series:

Critical Issues in Health and Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing--History.

Nursing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Modern health care cannot exist without professional nurses. Throughout the twentieth century, there was seldom a sustained period when the supply of nurses was equal to demand. Nursing the Nation offers a historical analysis of the relationship between the development of nurse employment arrangements with patients and institutions and the appearance of nurse shortages from 1890 to 1950. The response to nursing supply and demand problems by health care institutions and policy-making organizations failed to address nurse workforce issues adequately, and this failure resulted in, at times, profound and lengthy nurse shortages. Nurses also lost the ability to control their own destiny within health care institutions while nevertheless establishing themselves as the most critical part of health care provision today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Have Cap Will Travel: How and Why Nurses Became Professionals

Chapter 2. Starting Out: Organizing the Work and the Profession

Chapter 3. Supplying Nurses: The Central Registry Business

Chapter 4. Surpluses, Shortages, and Segregation

Chapter 5. Private Duty’s Golden Age

Chapter 6. The Great Depression: Collapse, Resurrection, and Success

Chapter 7. More and More (and Better) Nurses

Conclusion

Appendix

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8135-8600-3

OCLC:

1236367859