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American nursing : from hospitals to health systems / Joan E. Lynaugh and Barbara L. Brush.

Title
American nursing : from hospitals to health systems / Joan E. Lynaugh and Barbara L. Brush.
Author
Lynaugh, Joan E.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, a copublication with the Milbank Memorial Fund, 1996.

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Additional Authors
Brush, Barbara L.
Description
xi, 97 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Discusses the trends in nursing during the past fifty years towards new responsibilities, higher pay, better education, increase in numbers of nurses, and emphasis on a care system centered on the hospital and nurses. Also discusses the effects on nursing of a care system evolving away from hospitals and towards alternative settings in the community and the home.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Bureaucratizing care, 1945-1960 -- Reorganizing care, 1960-1980 -- Relocating care, 1980-1995.
ISBN
1577180461 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^96045993^
OCLC
  • 35694537
  • SCSB-10633336
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library