Nursing Rural America : Perspectives From the Early 20th Century.
Title:
Nursing Rural America : Perspectives From the Early 20th Century.
Author:
Kirchgessner, John.
ISBN:
9780826196156
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (190 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Notes -- Share Nursing Rural America: Perspectives From the Early 20th Century -- Chapter 1: Town and Country Nursing: Community Participation and Nurse Recruitment -- American Red Cross Rural Nursing Service (1912 to 1913) -- The First Year -- Community Participation -- Access to Care -- The Work -- Additional Education for Rural Practice -- Insufficient Workforce -- Town and Country Nursing Service (1913 to 1918) -- Bureau of Public Health Nursing (1918 to 1932) and Public Health Nursing and Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick (1932 to 1948) -- Insufficient Number of Qualified Rural Public Health Nurses -- Concluding Years of the Arc Rural Public Health Nursing Service -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Public Nursing in Rural Wisconsin: Stretched Beyond Health Instruction -- The First County Nurses -- Defining the Work of the County Nurse -- Nurse-Physician Relationships -- The Reality of Budgetary Constraints -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: School Nursing in Virginia: Hookworm, Tooth Decay, and Tonsillectomies -- Origins of School Nursing -- Rural Schools -- Advances in School Health -- Hookworm and Sanitary Surveys -- Transportation and Distances -- Specialty Clinics -- Gaining Access to Families -- Financial Barriers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Nursing in Schoolfield Mill Village: Cotton and Welfare -- Development of an Industrial Nursing Specialty -- The Southern Cotton Textile Industry: 1880-1930 -- Culture, Work, and Health in Southern Textile Mill Villages -- Establishing Trust -- An Unsafe Environment -- A Need for Improved Nutrition -- Focus on Safety -- Practicing to the Full Extent of Their Education -- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention -- Schoolfield Village, Dan River Mills, Virginia -- Conclusion -- Notes.
Chapter 5: Care in the Coal Fields: Promoting Health Through Sanitation and Nutrition -- From Mountaineers to Miners -- Coal Company Care -- Health Care Aboveground and Underground -- Nurses in the Coal Fields -- Koppers Nurses Improve Access to Care -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Mary Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service: Saddlebags and Swinging Bridges -- Roots of the Frontier Nursing Service -- A Rural Nurse-Midwifery Service is Born -- Rural Health Model -- Challenges of a Rural Nurse-Midwifery Service -- Advantages of the Rural Setting -- Living and Working in Impoverished Mountain Communities -- Using the Full Extent of Knowledge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Migrant Nursing in the Great Depression: Floods, Flies, and the Farm Security Administration -- The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl -- The Ditch Camps -- Promoting Health -- Government "Suitcase Camps" -- Practicing at the Full Extent of Their Education -- Gaining Trust -- Following the Crops -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Nursing in West Texas: Trains, Tumbleweeds, and Rattlesnakes -- Exploring the Pecos -- Ranching and the Railroad -- Texas Tea -- The Early West Texas Oil Industry -- Roughnecks and Rattlesnakes -- "Like a War Zone" -- An Offer Accepted -- A New Life in West Texas -- Addressing Community Needs -- Polio in the Trans-Pecos -- Challenging Emergency Transports -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Nursing the Navajo: Dust Storms and Gully Washouts -- The Federal Initiative -- The Meriam Report and the Field Nurses -- Collaboration Versus Autonomous Practice -- Trachoma -- Tuberculosis -- Treating Impetigo -- Meeting Basic Needs -- Physician Reactions -- Gaining the Acceptance of the Medicine Men -- Maternity Services -- The 1940s and 1950s -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
"Each chapter depicts nurses facing and overcoming a multitude of challenges as they addressed the medical needs of rural Americans. Because of their spirit of acceptance and community cooperation, their outcomes were remarkable: fully immunized communities, a decrease in mortality rates, statewide health policy implementation, and growth in community pride. The resilience of these nurses and their communities serves as a source of professional pride for problems solved and health enhanced.". -Mary S. Collins , PhD, RN, FAAN. Glover-Crask Professor of Nursing. Director, DNP Program. Wegmans School of Nursing. St. John Fisher College. Rochester, NY. Tracing the history of nursing in rural America during the first half of the 20th century, this well-researched book describes how nurses shaped health care delivery in remote, isolated rural settings, and analyzes how insights from their remarkable achievements in the face of formidable barriers can be applied to health care today. The book examines the multiple factors that influenced how and why nurses responded to the health care needs of rural residents, with coverage of rural nursing from the advent of the American Red Cross to Mary Breckinridge and her legendary Frontier Nursing Service; from rural Maine to the Navajo reservation in the Four Corners region. Through case histories, it depicts how nurses, working in the hinterlands of place, race, class, and ethnicity, broke geographic, cultural, and economic barriers to provide quality care. Based on nine actual case histories throughout America, the book identifies how nursing care was delivered to rural communities during the first five decades of the 20th century (before the advent of Medicare and Medicaid), and analyzes the impact of gender, class, race, policy, and place on rural health care delivery. It describes how nurses used ingenuity
and self-reliance in order to practice to the full extent of their education, and explains how they provided access to care and health education in the face of many barriers. By documenting the reality of rural nursing in several different areas of the country and within multiethnic populations, the book also fills a gap in health care history. It provides historical primary source data that supports concepts, theory, and practice in rural nursing today. The book also highlights nurses' advocacy for their often disenfranchised patients, and examines how we can learn from their achievements to provide quality health care today. Key Features: Traces the history of rural nursing during the first half of the 20th century through nine case histories; Describes nursing care for populations including adults, children, itinerant tenant farmers, and rural poor throughout the continental United States; Showcases how nurses can serve diverse populations lacking a quality health care infrastructure; Provides analysis of past rural nursing as it can help guide nursing today; Offers historical primary source data that supports theory and practice in rural nursing today.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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