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On Duty
Price: $39.95
Subtitle:
Power, Politics, and
the History of Nursing in New Jersey
Author:
Frances Ward
Subject: Medicine,
Women's
Studies, Regional,
History
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4491-5
Pages:
376 pages, 21
illustrations
Publication Date: April 2009
Praise for On Duty
"On Duty provides the much needed
context to understand the rich and complicated history of nursing in
New Jersey. This particular history also provides the background
to think about how we might move forward as a profession in meeting the
health care needs of those entrusted to our care. On Duty promises to make an
important contribution to this emerging area of study."—Patricia D'Antonio,
editor, Nursing History Review
and associate professor and associate director, Barbara Bates Center
for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania
Description:
In 1886, Newark City
Hospital opened a training school for nurses in New Jersey. With the
dawn of a new century women began to demand rights that had been denied
them, and nurses too demanded changes in health care and higher
education. For the first time, On
Duty offers a highly readable account of the struggle for
professional autonomy by New Jersey nurses and reveals how their
political and legislative battles mirrored the struggle of women
throughout the country to redefine their roles in society.
About the Author:
FRANCES WARD is the David R. Devereaux
Chair of Nursing in the College of Health Professionsat Temple
University. The founding dean of the School of Nursing at the
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, she also maintains
a clinical practice serving urban residents.
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