A History of Apprenticeship Nurse Training in Ireland

ISBN-13: 9780415655040 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 216 str.

Gerard Fealy

Opis

Based on new research using previously unpublished sources, this compelling text is an in-depth study of the history of nurse education in Ireland, presenting a new authoritative account of the history of the traditional system of training in Ireland.

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.