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Klappentext The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; and a brief overview for each section. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is a general guide that provides a number of interesting and functional ideas for using Annual Editions readers in the classroom. Visit www.mhhe.com/annualeditions for more details. Inhaltsverzeichnis Unit: Nursing Past, Present, and Future
Mary Breckinridge, Suzanne Ridgway, Working Nurse, 2005The Frontier Nursing Service, the precursor of the visiting nurses, founded by Mary Breckinridge, brought health care to the people of Appalachia. Nurses on horseback, were dispatched to remote areas, to provide nursing care for those in need.
Hospitals Were for the Really Sick, Clancy Strock, Reminisce, 2005Strock reminisces about the days when hospital care was only for people who were severely injured and those with life-threatening illnesses; otherwise, the patient care took place in their home. Today, with all the high-tech equipment and procedures, health-care is going back to that model. Only the sickest patients receive inpatient care. The author questioned why, with all the high-tech equipment and present knowledge, things have not really changed.
Jane Delano, Suzanne Ridgway, Working Nurse, 2005Approximately 21 years after the American Red-Cross was founded by Clara Barton, Jane Delano was instrumental in establishing a permanent nursing force for that organization.
An End to Angels, Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson, American Journal of Nursing, 2005This article laments the loss of the traditional image of nursing and espouses the need for a knowledge-based identity. This will carry the profession to a level that is higher, one that will attract younger people to fill the vacant ranks left by the members of the profession, who are aging.
Delores O'Hara, Suzanne Ridgway, Working Nurse, 2005In 1959 Delores O'Hara, who was a modern day Registered Nurse and Nursing pioneer, became the first nurse that NASA recruited. The space agency only employed one nurse, Dee O'Hara, to provide Nursing care for the original group of seven "space pilots". Today, it takes more than a dozen nurses to provide care for the one hundred astronauts at NASA.
Shots Heard 'Round the World, Michael Doss, The Orange County Register, 2005Fifty years have passed since the announcement of a safe polio vaccine. This vaccine has led to the virtual eradication of the dreaded polio epidemic. Nurses continue to work with Organizations, around the world, like the World Health Organization (WHO), to immunize children and educate parents, so that they are aware of the need to protect children from childhood illnesses.
Linda Richards, Suzanne Ridgway, Working Nurse, 2005This is the profile of an important contributor to the field of nursing. This article is about Melinda Richards and her desire for a formal nursing training program. She became the first American t...
