Nursing and the privilege of prescription, 1893-2000 / Arlene W. Keeling.

  • Keeling, Arlene Wynbeek, 1948-
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[2007], ©2007
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Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2007], ©2007.

Physical description

xxv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.

Contents

Midway between the pharmacist and the physician: the work of the Henry Street settlement visiting nurses, 1893-1944 -- Practicing medicine without a license? Nurse anesthetists, 1900-1938 -- Providing care in the "hoot owl hollers": nursing, medicine, and the law in the frontier nursing service, 1925-1950 -- My treatment was castor oil and aspirin: field nursing among the Navajo in the four corners region, 1925-1955 -- Verbal orders and hospital nursing: expanding nurses' scope of practice in the mid-twentieth century -- Nurse practitioners and the prescription pad, 1965-1980 -- Prescriptive authority for advanced practice nurses, 1980-2000.

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    History of Medicine
    CBX.6
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  • 9780814210505
  • 0814210503