A History of The Queen's Nursing Institute
A History of The Queen's Nursing Institute

Author: Monica E. Baly

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1040260217

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Originally published in 1987, reissued here with a new preface, this book presented a history of the Queen’s Nursing Institute on the occasion of the centenary of its founding in 1887. Since that time, the Institute had been the major force behind all developments in the field of district nursing. Monica Baly here traces the history of the Institute concentrating not just on top personalities, but on showing what district nurses actually did and on relating developments to the social, political and cultural events and attitudes of the day. Breaking much new ground, the book should be essential reading for all district nurses in particular, and for other nurses and historians with an interest in the history of nursing. Still going strong today, now The Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing is a registered charity dedicated to improving the nursing care of people in the home and community.

Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession
Jewish refugees and the British nursing profession

Author: Jane Brooks

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1526167417

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This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular with British women. In the years preceding the Second World War, hospitals in Britain suffered chronic nurse staffing crises. As the country faced inevitable war, the Government and the profession’s elite courted refugees as an antidote to the shortages, but many hospitals refused to employ Continental Jews. The book explores the changes in the refugees’ status and lives from the war years to the foundation of the National Health Service and to the latter decades of the twentieth century. It places the refugees at the forefront of manoeuvres in nursing practice, education and research at a time of social upheaval and alterations in the position of women.

District Nursing at a Glance
District Nursing at a Glance

Author: Matthew Bradby

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1119023459

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District Nursing at a Glance is the perfect study and revision guide for students and qualified nurses alike, providing a concise yet thorough overview of community care and its implications for nursing practice. A new addition to the market-leading at a Glance series, this dynamic and highly visual resource covers a wide range of fundamental topics, from the historical and theoretical background of district nursing to practical information on prescribing, mental health, home assessment, pain management, end of life care, and much more. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this portable and accessible guide: Provides a clear picture of delivering care in a patient’s own home and addresses many contemporary and emerging aspects of practice Covers stroke, cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, chemotherapy, and other common diseases suffered by patients in the community setting Offers up-to-date information and advice on evidence-based practice, educational pathways, and career development Discusses the use of mobile technology to support professional practice of caring for patients in their homes Includes summary boxes, key points, full references, links to online resources, and recommendations for practice to improve the learning experience District Nursing at a Glance is a must-have revision guide and reference for pre-registration nursing students, particularly those in community clinical placements, post-registration students on district nursing courses, and newly qualified district nurses and healthcare assistants.

Nursing History Review, Volume 15, 2007
Nursing History Review, Volume 15, 2007

Author: Patricia D’Antonio, RN, PhD, FAAN

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

Published: 2006-09-18

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0826114695

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Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles, over a dozen book reviews of the best publications on nursing and health care history that have appeared in the past year, and a section abstracting new doctoral dissertations on nursing history. Historians, researchers, and individuals interested with the rich field of nursing will find this an important resource.

The District Nurse
The District Nurse

Author: Susan Cohen

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2018-06-30

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1473875811

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For 150 years, up and down the country, from large cities to rural areas and the remotest islands and highlands, district nurses have been visiting the sick in their own homes. Here they have provided healthcare, and given moral support and advice to people of all ages the length and breadth of Britain.Follow the story of how, in the 1860s, the Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone VI set up an experiment in home nursing in his home city, aimed at providing care for the poor who had no access to proper medical attention. His scheme resulted in the establishment of district nursing as a profession, and the inauguration of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute for Nurses.Take a journey through the growth of the district nursing movement movement, of the expansion of services into school nursing and health visiting in 1891, through nursing and pastoral care during the First and Second World Wars, and learn how, periodically, the district nurse has provided maternity and midwifery services.This illustrated history of district nursing provides a unique insight into the role played by members of this branch of the nursing profession, and demonstrates how the nurses have been the backbone of the community, providing the public with a wide range of invaluable healthcare services.

Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain
Community Nursing and Primary Healthcare in Twentieth-Century Britain

Author: Helen M. Sweet

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-12-12

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1135911983

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This book looks at community nursing history in Great Britain during the twentieth century to examine the significant changes affecting the nurse’s work on the district including compulsory registration for general nursing, changes in organisation, training, conditions of service and workload.

The Nightingale Shore Murder
The Nightingale Shore Murder

Author: Rosemary Cook

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2015-10-07

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1784624047

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This updated and expanded second edition is the true story of the unsolved murder of Florence Nightingale’s goddaughter. Florence Nightingale Shore grew up in a Victorian family that found itself mired in controversy and scandal. She became a respected Queen’s Nurse, who worked for five years in France from 1914 and was decorated for her heroism in World War 1. Tragically, on her return to England, Florence was murdered on a moving train – a classic ‘closed room’ murder mystery in a railway carriage. In spite of the best efforts of the local police, Scotland Yard and the famous pathologist Bernard Spilsbury, the crime was never solved. But now a new suspect has been identified, and another mystery has been uncovered amongst the shadowy characters surrounding the crime, to add to the unanswered questions: Who was ‘the man in the brown suit’? What was the significance of the unloaded revolver? And did the Arlington burglar have a sinister reason to burn all his clothing? These questions, and the breathtaking new theory that would rewrite the whole story of Florence’s life, are all explored in this fascinating book, which combines mystery with history and true crime with true heroism. Florence’s story ranges from Victorian England to South Africa, China and war-torn Europe. Her family members emerge as flawed, fascinating characters, and her brutal death as one of the most tragic and enduring unsolved crimes in England.

Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare
Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare

Author: Ann Marie Rafferty

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1134773536

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A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade, transforming it into a robust and reflective area of scholarship. Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare highlights the significant contribution that researching nursing history has to make in settling a new intellectual and political agenda for nurses. The seventeen international contributors to this book look at nursing from different perspectives, as it has developed under different regimes and ideologies and at different times, in America, Australia, Britain, Germany, India, The Phillipines and South Africa. They highlight the role of politics and gender in understanding nursing history and propose strategies for achieving greater recognition for nursing, and bringing it into line with other related health care professions.