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Bright faces and neat dresses : a history of general nurse training in Ireland, 1879-1994 / Gerard Fealy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in nursing historyPublication details: London : Routledge, 2005.Description: xiii, 200 p. : ill. 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415359979 (hbk.) :
  • 041535997X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.730711 FEA
  • 610.73/071/1417 22
LOC classification:
  • RT81.I73 F43 2005
Contents:
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.
Summary: Based on research using previously unpublished sources, this text is an in-depth study of the history of hospital apprenticeship nurse training in Ireland.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 610.730711 FEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 205459

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.

Based on research using previously unpublished sources, this text is an in-depth study of the history of hospital apprenticeship nurse training in Ireland.

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