Nurses' Work: Issues Across Time and Place

Every nursing student and practicing nurse would benefit from reading this book." Score: 91, 4 stars

--Doody's

The excerpts taken from original writings and events provide readers with a sneak peak into a forgotten world....This book is a must for anyone in the nursing profession. Essential. All levels.--Choice

With contributions from some of the most renowned nursing scholars and historians, the real-life history of how nurses worked and how they endured the ever-changing economic, social, educational, and technological milieus is presented in a captivating collection of articles.

Through time and place, experts chronicle the rich variety of nurses' work by presenting actual accounts of clinical practice experiences. Tracing the evolution of nursing from the role as family caregiver to roles in clinical practice today, the contributors approach this history by focusing on four thematic categories:

• Who does the work of nursing?
• Who pays for the work of nursing?
• What is the real work of nursing?
• How have our nursing predecessors struggled with the relationship between work and knowledge?

Nurses' Work, provides an incredible collection of significant historical scholarship and contemporary themes that encourages us to understand and think these questions and the future of nursing.

Patricia D’Antonio, RN, PhD, is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, a Fellow at the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Associate Editor of Nursing History Review.

Ellen D. Baer, RN, PhD, FAAN, is the Wallace Gilroy Visiting Professor of Nursing at the University of Miami and Professor Emeritus of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she held the Hillman Term Professorship in Nursing and where she remains an Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing.

Sylvia D. Rinker, RN, PhD, is Associate professor of Nursing at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She is Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the American Association for the History of Nursing, archivist for the Xi Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau at Lynchburg College, and on the Advisory Board for the Center for the History and Culture of Central Virginia.

Joan E. Lynaugh, RN, PhD, FAAN, is Professor Emeritus of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania where she held the History of Nursing and Health Care Term Professorship. Dr. Lynaugh was the Founder and Director, now Associate Director, of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing and the Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She currently chairs the Board of Trustees of the Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia.