Backrubs vs. bach nursing and the entry-into-practice debate, 1946-1986

Nursing History Review

Volumn 4, Issue , 1996, Pages 3-17

  Leighow, Susan Rimby ^a  

^a SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; NURSING EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; STANDARD; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, NURSING; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 20TH CENT.; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMAN; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030020069     PISSN: 10628061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1062-8061.4.1.3     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Patricia Early, "Letters," American Journal of Nursing 66 (April 1966): 738 (hereafter cited as AJN).
2. See Susan Armeny, "Resolute Enthusiasts: The Effort to Professionalize American Nursing, 1880-1915" (PhD diss., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1983), 157-95, 278-97, 398-99;
3. Barbara Melosh, "Tlie Physician's Hand": Work Culture and Conflict in American Nursing (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982), 3-5, 30-34, 40-44, 123-24;
4. and Susan M. Reverby, Ordered to Care: Vie Dilemma of American Nursing, 1850-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 97-99,121-42,159-77-
5. Before World War II, only a handful of collegiate programs were established. These catered to licensed nurses seeking advanced degrees. For an analysis of the failure of educational reform prior to World War II, see Armeny, 278-97; Melosh, 27-28; and Reverby, 164-73.
6. See Shirley H. Fondiller, The Entry Dilemma: Tlie National League for Nursing and the Higher Education Movement, 1952-1972, With an Epilogue to 1983 (New York: NLN, 1980); Melosh, 68-69; and Reverby, 203.
7. ANA, Facts About Nursing, 1951 (New York: ANA, 1951), 51.