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A History of Nursing Ideas

Author(s): Linda C. Andrist, PhD, PhD, WHNP, MGH Institute of Health Professions
Patrice K. Nicholas, DNSc, MPH, APRN, BC, MGH Institute of Health Professions
Karen Anne Wolf, PhD, APRN-BC, MGH Institute of Health Professions
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763722890
  • ISBN-10:0763722898
  • Paperback    504 pages      © 2006
Price: International Sales $100.95 US List
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Overview

The first of its kind, this text examines nursing ideas and theories from a historical, theoretical, and professional lens. As a foundation for socialization into the professional nursing role, the book demonstrates the contextual development of nursing as a profession, highlighting the connections between the social history of nursing and health care; the evolution of nursing theory, practice and research; and the resulting challenges of our past, present, and future.

Section One examines the critical threads in nursing ideas—gender, culture, race, community, environment, and technology. Section Two traces the history of theory development, from the philosophical underpinnings of ways of knowing in nursing, nursing science, to application of theory in nursing practice. Section Three analyzes professional practice, education, and research.

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Section 1

Section 1 Introduction

Chapter 1: The History of the Relationship Between Feminism and Nursing

Chapter 2: Oppressed Group Behavior and Nursing

Chapter 3: Men Nurses and Women Physicians: Exploring Masculinities and Gendered and Sexed Relations in Nursing and Medicine

Chapter 4: Moving Towards a Culturally Competent Profession

Chapter 5: Race, Race Relations, and the Emergence of Professional Nursing, 1870-2004

Chapter 6: Exploring Migration and Health

Chapter 7: The Concept of Community in Nursing History: Its Narrative Stream

Chapter 8: The Evolution of the Environment Paradigm in Nursing

Chapter 9: Visible Humans, Vanishing Bodies, and Virtual Nursing: Complications of life, presence, place and identity

Chapter 10: Machine Technologies and Caring in Nursing


Section 2

Section 2 Introduction

Chapter 11: Fundamental Patterns of Knowing Nursing

Chapter 12: Patterns of Knowing: Review, Critique, and Update

Chapter 13: An Example of Personal Knowledge: Spirituality

Chapter 14: What is Nursing Science?

Chapter 15: Toward a Theory of Nursing Art

Chapter 16: Wading Through Muddy Waters

Chapter 17: Healthy Death: The Ethics of Care at the End-of-Life

Chapter 18: Grief and Bereavement: Guidance for Primary Care Providers

Chapter 19: Family Coping and Adaptation In Planning Support Services for Parents of Children with Chronic Disabilites

Chapter 20: Common Adverse Drug Reactions in the Elderly: Application of the Neuman Systems Model and the Role of Nursing

Chapter 21: Delirium in the Hospitalized Older Adult: Development of a Delirium Risk Stratification Tool

Chapter 22: Providing a Framework for the Nurse-Patient Relationship: The Nursing Theory of Hildegard Peplau

Chapter 23: Development and Psychometric Analysis of the Cancer Rehabilitation Questionnaire

Chapter 24: Structuring Nursing Knowledge: A Priority for Creating Nursling's Future

Chapter 25: A World of No Boundaries


Section 3

Section 3 Introduction

Chapter 26: The Long March to Professional Practice

Chapter 27: Nursing Centers and  the autonomy of Nursing Work

Chapter 28: The Power of the Written Word: The Influence of Nursing Journals

Chapter 29: Education for Entry Into Nursing Practice: Revisited for the 21st Century

Chapter 30: The Elephant In Our Living Room: Associate Degree Education in Nursing

Chapter 31: Advanced Practice Nursing: Moving Beyond the Basics

Chapter 32: The Evolution of Doctoral Education in Nursing

Chapter 33: Knowledge Development in Nursing: Our Historical Roots and Future Opportunities

Chapter 34: Reflective Practice: Empowering Nursing Knowledge

Chapter 35: Reclaiming Spirituality in Nursing

Chapter 36: Nursing as a Context for Alternative/Complimentary Modalities

Chapter 37: The Role of the Code of Ethics in Nursling's Disciplinary Knowledge

Chapter 38: Contributions of the Professional, Public, and Private Sectors in Promoting Patient Safety

Chapter 39: The Nursing Shortage: Solutions for the Short and Long Term

Chapter 40: Nightingale’s Passion for Advocacy: Local to Global

 


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Linda C. Andrist, PhD, PhD, WHNP-MGH Institute of Health Professions

Dr. Andrist is Associate Professor in the Graduate Nursing Program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She coordinates the Women's Health Nurse Practitioner specialty. She has taught Direct Entry Master's students for over 20 years and the course on which this book is based for 8 years. Her doctorate is from Brandeis University, Master's from Russell Sage College, BSN from the University of Maryland, and RN diploma from Johns Hopkins. Her theoretical publications are on the relationship between women's health and feminism. In addition to her academic appointment, she practices as a women's health nurse practitioner in a reproductive health clinic in Boston.

Patrice K. Nicholas, DNSc, MPH, APRN, BC-MGH Institute of Health Professions

Patrice K. Nicholas, DNSc, MPH, RN, ANP is Professor and Chairperson for advanced practice in the Graduate Program in Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Nicholas graduated from Fitchburg State College with a BSN in 1977, and received a Master of Science degree in 1982 and a DNSc degree in 1989 from Boston University. She completed the Certificate of Advanced Study at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in 1994 and is board certified as an adult nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist in medical-surgical nursing. From 1996 to 1999, Dr. Nicholas was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health focusing on quality of life in chronic illness and HIV/AIDS. During her postdoctoral studies, she received a Master of Public Health degree in International Health at Harvard, completing coursework at the Harvard AIDS Institute and Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. Dr. Nicholas has practiced in the clinical settings at MGH and Brigham and Women's Hospital. She has written extensively on quality of life in chronic illness and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Nicholas was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Germany in 2003 focusing on demographic challenges and health issues. 

Karen Anne Wolf, PhD, APRN-BC-MGH Institute of Health Professions

Dr. Wolf is a clinical Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Generalist Level of the Graduate Program in Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She has been a nursing educator for over 25 years, teaching in both undergraduate and entry level graduate programs. She has written, lectured, and served as a media consultant in the areas of nursing history, nursing policy and politics, women's work, and community health. A scholar in the work of Jo Anne Ashley, she edited the Jones and Bartlett book "Jo Anne Ashley: Selected Readings." In addition to her academic work, she practices as a community based nurse practitioner in the Cambridge Health Alliance and is a fellow in the National Academy of Practice. Dr. Wolf received her doctorate from Brandeis University in Sociology, her BSN and masters in community health from Boston University, a diploma from Johns Hopkins; and a post-masters certificate in Adult Ambulatory Care from the University of Massachusetts-Worchester Medical Center. 

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  • "This book covers a variety of nursing ideas, many of them controversial. It would be very useful for class or online discussion related to these nursing issues (ideas). The chapters are fairly short and to the point, so students could provide other readings on the topics to enhance knowledge and promote further discussion. Practicing nurses could also gain from this book since the ideas and issues have an enormous impact on practice and healthcare today and for the future."

     

    —Vicki Ann Moss, DNSc, MS, BSN, RN
    University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
    Reviewed by Doody’s Book Review Service

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ShowAppropriate Courses

Appropriate for courses in nursing theory, role development, and introduction to the profession.

Sample Course Name:

Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Nursing

 

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