Nursing and the privilege of prescription, 1893-2000
Title:
Nursing and the privilege of prescription, 1893-2000
JLCTITLE245:
Arlene W. Keeling.
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Publication Information:
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2007.
Physical Description:
xxv, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780814210505
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Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.
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Contents:
Midway between the pharmacist and the physician: the work of the Henry Street settlement visiting nurses, 1893-1944 -- Practicing medicine without a license? Nurse anesthetists, 1900-1938 -- Providing care in the "hoot owl hollers": nursing, medicine, and the law in the frontier nursing service, 1925-1950 -- My treatment was castor oil and aspirin: field nursing among the Navajo in the four corners region, 1925-1955 -- Verbal orders and hospital nursing: expanding nurses' scope of practice in the mid-twentieth century -- Nurse practitioners and the prescription pad, 1965-1980 -- Prescriptive authority for advanced practice nurses, 1980-2000.