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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:
"Ward covers a long chronological span and provides one part of a complicated history that examines how nurses gained power and used the legislative and professional status."
—American Historical Review
"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
"Frances Ward presents a detailed and intelligent history of the
professional evolution of nursing. Historians of nursing and health
care, and scholars of the history of professions, will find in On Duty a lucid case study of
social, political and legal forces that shape nursing. The depth of her
connection to her subject matter, and her passion for her topic make
this an important addition to the literature."
—Social History of Medicine,
February 18, 2010
"The history of nursing in New Jersey provides a good benchmark from
which to examine the history of nursing in other states. The author
ends her well-researched book with a reflection on her personal
experiences as a nurse practitioner and her freedom to be able to
practice as an autonomous nursing professional. This book fills an
important gap in the history of nursing."
—Nursing History Review
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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