A History of Apprenticeship Nurse Training in Ireland

ISBN-13: 9780415359979 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 216 str.

Gerard M. Fealy; Gerald M. Fealy

Opis

In Ireland, as in many other countries, the education and training of nurses is undergoing reform and what was a vocation is becoming a profession." A History of Apprenticeship Nurse Training in Ireland" traces the progress of nurse education, presenting a new authoritative and scholarly account of the history of the traditional system of training in Ireland.
Introduced as part of the reforms of hospital nursing in the late nineteenth century, apprenticeship nurse training was a vocational extension of secondary education. It resided outside the mainstream of higher educational provision and provided nurses with the knowledge and technical skills for sick nursing. It also functioned to socialize them into the role of hospital worker and to inculcate in them nursing's value systems. This system of training provided a ready supply of skilled, efficient, inexpensive and loyal workers. Gerard M. Fealy exposes social, cultural, political and economic factors that have influenced this provision and reform of nurse training, and demonstrates how these factors have shaped modern nursing in Ireland. He critically examines current historiography, bringing the hidden role of nurses and nursing to the fore.
Based on extensive primary sources, this in-depth study is essential reading for scholars and students of nursing history and Irish social history.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Introduction  2. Charity, Medical Relief, and Precursors of the Modern Nurse  3. ‘Nursing Arrangements’: Nursing policy in Dublin in the late nineteenth century  4. Hospitals in Transition: Two case studies of nursing reform  5. ‘Exemplary Conduct and Character’: The lady nurses of the Dublin hospitals  6. Professional Regulation and the General Nursing Council for Ireland  7. ‘Knowledge of her Work’: The curriculum, c. 1899–1949  8. The Nursing Board and the Training Experience, 1950–1979  9. From the Hospital to the Academy, 1980–1994  10. Conclusions

O autorze

Gerard M. Fealy is a nurse historian and a senior lecturer in nursing at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Dublin. His research interests include the history of nursing, curriculum policy and research methods. Dr Fealy is the editor of Care to Remember: Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland and the co-editor of Nursing Education in Drogheda, 1946-2004: A Commemorative History.