TY - BOOK AU - Fealy,Gerard M. TI - Bright faces and neat dresses: a history of general nurse training in Ireland, 1879-1994 T2 - Routledge studies in nursing history SN - 9780415359979 (hbk.) : AV - RT81.I73 F43 2005 U1 - 610.730711 FEA PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Nursing KW - Ireland KW - History KW - Study and teaching KW - thema KW - European history KW - Nursing research & theory KW - Nursing fundamentals & skills KW - Health and Wellbeing KW - ukslc KW - Education, Nursing KW - history N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction--1. Charity, medical relief and precursors of the modern nurse -- 2. Nursing arrangements : nursing policy in Dublin in the late nineteenth century -- 3. Hospitals in transition : two case studies of nursing reform -- 4. Exemplary conduct and character : the lady nurses of the Dublin hospitals -- 5. Professional regulation and the General Nursing Council for Ireland -- 6. Knowledge of her work : the curriculum, c. 1899-1949 -- 7. The Nursing Board and the training experience, 1950-1979 -- 8. From the hospital to the academy, 1980-1994.--9. Conclusions N2 - Based on research using previously unpublished sources, this text is an in-depth study of the history of hospital apprenticeship nurse training in Ireland ER -