A History of Nursing Ideas: .

by Linda C. Andrist, Patrice K. Nicholas, Karen Anne Wolf

Overview

This book is Print on Demand. Orders take 4-6 weeks to fulfill.The first of its kind, this text examines nursing ideas and theories from a historical, theoretical, and professional lens. As a foundation for socialization into the professional nursing role, the book demonstrates the contextual development of nursing as a profession, highlighting the connections between the social history of nursing and health care; the evolution of nursing theory, practice and research; and the resulting challenges of our past, present, and future.Section One examines the critical threads in nursing ideas-gender, culture, race, community, environment, and technology. Section Two traces the history of theory development, from the philosophical underpinnings of ways of knowing in nursing, nursing science, to application of theory in nursing practice. Section Three analyzes professional practice, education, and research. Appropriate for courses in nursing theory, role development, and introduction to the profession. Sample Course Name: Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Nursing © 2006 | 504 pages

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763722890
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning
Publication date:	10/12/2005
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	504
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Dr. Andrist is Associate Professor in the Graduate Nursing Program at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She coordinates the Women's Health Nurse Practitioner specialty. She has taught Direct Entry Master's students for over 20 years and the course on which this book is based for 8 years. Her doctorate is from Brandeis University, Master's from Russell Sage College, BSN from the University of Maryland, and RN diploma from Johns Hopkins. Her theoretical publications are on the relationship between women's health and feminism. In addition to her academic appointment, she practices as a women's health nurse practitioner in a reproductive health clinic in Boston.

Patrice K. Nicholas, DNSc, MPH, RN, ANP is Professor and Chairperson for advanced practice in the Graduate Program in Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Dr. Nicholas graduated from Fitchburg State College with a BSN in 1977, and received a Master of Science degree in 1982 and a DNSc degree in 1989 from Boston University. She completed the Certificate of Advanced Study at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in 1994 and is board certified as an adult nurse practitioner and clinical nurse specialist in medical-surgical nursing. From 1996 to 1999, Dr. Nicholas was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health focusing on quality of life in chronic illness and HIV/AIDS. During her postdoctoral studies, she received a Master of Public Health degree in International Health at Harvard, completing coursework at the Harvard AIDS Institute and Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. Dr. Nicholas has practiced in the clinical settings at MGH and Brigham and Women's Hospital. She has written extensively on quality of life in chronic illness and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Nicholas was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Germany in 2003 focusing on demographic challenges and health issues.

Dr. Wolf is a clinical Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Generalist Level of the Graduate Program in Nursing at the MGH Institute of Health Professions. She has been a nursing educator for over 25 years, teaching in both undergraduate and entry level graduate programs. She has written, lectured, and served as a media consultant in the areas of nursing history, nursing policy and politics, women's work, and community health. A scholar in the work of Jo Anne Ashley, she edited the Jones and Bartlett book "Jo Anne Ashley: Selected Readings." In addition to her academic work, she practices as a community based nurse practitioner in the Cambridge Health Alliance and is a fellow in the National Academy of Practice. Dr. Wolf received her doctorate from Brandeis University in Sociology, her BSN and masters in community health from Boston University, a diploma from Johns Hopkins; and a post-masters certificate in Adult Ambulatory Care from the University of Massachusetts-Worchester Medical Center.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Vicki Ann Moss, DNSc, MS, BSN, RN (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Description: Authors discuss the major issues (nursing ideas) facing nursing today though a historical, theoretical, and professional lens in this book.
Purpose: The goal of the editors is to "guide students in their appreciation and understanding of the contextual nature of nursing knowledge and practice."
Audience: This book would be an appropriate text for undergraduates and graduate students on the history of nursing's development and the challenges nursing has had and will encounter on its journey to professionalism.
Features: The book's 40 chapters are divided into three sections — Weaving Critical Threads Through Nursing Ideas, Application of the Scholarship of Nursing Ideas, and Advancing the Profession. Major topics in the first section include the impact of gender, race, culture, community, and environment on nursing as a profession. In section 2, fundamental patterns of knowing and other philosophical and theoretical views are discussed in relation to the development of nursing ideas. In the final section, professionalism and nursing is discussed in the context of higher education, theory and knowledge development, ethical codes, and professional journals.
Assessment: This book covers a variety of nursing ideas, many of them controversial. It would be very useful for class or online discussion related to these nursing issues (ideas). The chapters are fairly short and to the point, so students could provide other readings on the topics to enhance knowledge and promote further discussion. Practicing nurses could also gain from this book since the ideas and issues have an enormous impact on practice and healthcare today and for the future.

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