'Wanted: 16 Nurses of the better educated type': Provision of nurses to South Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Nursing Inquiry

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 176-184

  Sweet, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonial nursing; Imperialism; Missions; Nurse training; Nursing history; Overseas Nursing Association; Professionalisation; South Africa

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NURSE; NURSE TRAINING; NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REVIEW; SOUTH AFRICA;

COLONIALISM; EUROPE; FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY OF NURSING; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 4544265822     PISSN: 13207881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1800.2004.00228.x     Document Type: Review

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