Nursing the Nation : : Building the Nurse Labor Force / / Jean C. Whelan.
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 arrangemen...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) :; 1 b-w image |
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Table of 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