{"product_id":"nursing-rural-america-perspectives-from-the-early-20th-century","title":"Nursing Rural America: Perspectives From the Early 20th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nursing Rural America: Perspectives From the Early 20th Century (Paperback, 188 pages) РSpringer Publishing Company, 2014. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThis book offers an interesting historical backdrop to nursing in rural parts of the US. Each of the nine chapters presents an individual case study from a different geographic area and focuses on a different ethnic population... Recommended. Nursing collections serving all levels of students, researchers\/faculty, and professionals\/practitioners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. Clawson, University of Central Missouri CHOICE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach chapter depicts nurses facing and overcoming a multitude of challenges as they addressed the medical needs of rural Americans. Because of their spirit of acceptance and community cooperation, their outcomes were remarkable: fully immunized communities, a decrease in mortality rates, statewide health policy implementation, and growth in community pride. The resilience of these nurses and their communities serves as a source of professional pride for problems solved and health enhanced.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eóMary S. Collins, PhD, RN, FAAN  Glover-Crask Professor of Nursing  Director, DNP Program  Wegmans School of Nursing  St. John Fisher College  Rochester, NY \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing the history of nursing in rural America during the first half of the 20th century, this well-researched book describes how nurses shaped health care delivery in remote, isolated rural settings, and analyzes how insights from their remarkable achievements in the face of formidable barriers can be applied to health care today. The book examines the multiple factors that influenced how and why nurses responded to the health care needs of rural residents, with coverage of rural nursing from the advent of the American Red Cross to Mary Breckinridge and her legendary Frontier Nursing Service; from rural Maine to the Navajo reservation in the Four Corners region. Through case histories, it depicts how nurses, working in the hinterlands of place, race, class, and ethnicity, broke geographic, cultural, and economic barriers to provide quality care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on nine actual case histories throughout America, the book identifies how nursing care was delivered to rural communities during the first five decades of the 20th century (before the advent of Medicare and Medicaid), and analyzes the impact of gender, class, race, policy, and place on rural health care delivery. It describes how nurses used ingenuity and self-reliance in order to practice to the full extent of their education, and explains how they provided access to care and health education in the face of many barriers. By documenting the reality of rural nursing in several different areas of the country and within multiethnic populations, the book also fills a gap in health care history. It provides historical primary source data that supports concepts, theory, and practice in rural nursing today. The book also highlights nurses' advocacy for their often disenfranchised patients, and examines how we can learn from their achievements to provide quality health care today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey Features:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTraces the history of rural nursing during the first half of the 20th century through nine case histories \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDescribes nursing care for populations including adults, children, itinerant tenant farmers, and rural poor throughout the continental United States \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShowcases how nurses can serve diverse populations lacking a quality health care infrastructure \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides analysis of past rural nursing as it can help guide nursing today \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers historical primary source data that supports theory and practice in rural nursing today \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e  \n\n                                         Editorial Reviews                   About the Author   \u003cp\u003eMichelle C. Hehman, PhD, RN, is a nurse historian and center associate for the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry at the University of Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eArlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Centennial Distinguished Professor of nursing at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, and associate director of the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry.\u003c\/p\u003e                                           ","brand":"John Kirchgessner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46069154087146,"sku":"9780826196149","price":56.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/61VkbnAk_tL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781204033","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/nursing-rural-america-perspectives-from-the-early-20th-century","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}