Nurses and Disasters: Global, Historical Case Studies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826126723 ISBN 13: 9780826126726

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2015

Synopsis

This timely volume describes and analyzes the nursing response to a variety of historic and recent global disasters that occurred between 1885 and 2012, including Hurricane Sandy. The book is unique in its discussion of cooperation and conflict in the disaster responses regarding the mobilization of individuals across national borders and continents. It examines how partnerships developed, their implications for policy, and how we can use lessons learned to improve care in the future.

The book addresses such questions as: How did local, regional, and national communities mobilize for emergency care? What was the role of local nurses in emergency care after disasters? What was the role of the national or international Red Cross, local and federal governments, physicians, nurses, and other first responders? What was the impact of social attitudes and issues of race, class, and gender on the ways nurses and other health care professionals reacted to the disasters? How did unpreparedness for the type or scope of the disaster affect the response? The book will be of value to a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate students in nursing, social work, history, health policy, women's studies, public health, and urban studies.

KEY FEATURES:

• Addresses the role of nurses in di saster response
• Highlights nurses' roles in di sasters that occurred in the context of World War II√≥heretofore unaddressed in the interest of political correctness
• Discusses policy implications of the different disasters

About this title

About the Author

Barbra Mann Wall, PhD, RN, FAAN is a nurse historian known for her studies on women and health care institutions and for her focus on Catholic hospitals and oral histories of retired nurses. Her recent work addresses the history of disaster nursing in the Southwest and the way people interpret disasters of the past. She is Associate Professor and Associate Director, Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, USA, with previous faculty positions at Purdue and Duke Universities. She is widely published, with 19 refereed journal articles and two books, one of which, Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, won the 2006 Lavinia Dock Award for Best Book, American Association for the History of Nursing (AAHN). Her newest book is American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Missions and Markets. Dr. Wall presents at major international and national nursing and women's research meetings and is the recipient of numerous research and program grants, from five to six figures.Arlene W. Keeling, PhD, RN, FAAN is the Centennial Distinguished Professor of Nursing and directs the Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry at the University of Virginia, USA. She also chairs the Department of Acute and Specialty Care. She is immediate Past President of the American Association for the History of Nursing and now second Vice President. Dr. Keeling is widely published with 26 peer-reviewed journal articles, two books, and 11 book chapters, along with numerous book reviews and commentaries. In 2007, she received the Lavinia Dock Award (AAHN) for her book Nursing and the Privilege of Prescription. Most recently she was author of The Nurses of Mayo Clinic (Mayo Clinic), and co-edited Nursing Rural America (Springer). She is the recipient of numerous research grants. A noted academic, Dr. Keeling presents internationally at major nursing and historical meetings.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0826126723
• ISBN 13: 9780826126726
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Keeling PhD RN FAAN Arlene W., Mann Wall PhD RN FAAN Barbra