Bright faces and neat dresses : a history of general nurse training in Ireland, 1879-1994 / Gerard Fealy.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge studies in nursing historyPublication details: London : Routledge, 2005.Description: xiii, 200 p. : ill. 24 cmISBN:- 9780415359979 (hbk.) :
- 041535997X
- 610.730711 FEA
- 610.73/071/1417 22
- RT81.I73 F43 2005
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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Based on research using previously unpublished sources, this text is an in-depth study of the history of hospital apprenticeship nurse training in Ireland.