Nursing and the privilege of prescription, 1893-2000 / Arlene W. Keeling.

Author/creator Keeling, Arlene Wynbeek, 1948-
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxxv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Nursing--United States. --History. --20th century.
Drugs--Prescribing. --United States. --History. --20th century.
Nursing Services--history. --United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Nurse's Role--history. --United States.
Drug Prescriptions--history. --United States.
History of Nursing.

SeriesWomen, gender, and health
Women, gender, and health. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ch. 1. Midway between the pharmacist and the physician : the work of the Henry Street settlement visiting nurses, 1893-1944 -- ch. 2. Practicing medicine without a license? Nurse anesthetists, 1900-1938 -- ch. 3. Providing care in the "hoot owl hollers" : nursing, medicine, and the law in the frontier nursing service, 1925-1950 -- ch. 4. "My treatment was castor oil and aspirin" : field nursing among the Navajo in the four corners region, 1925-1955 -- ch. 5. Verbal orders and hospital nursing : expanding nurses' scope of practice in the mid-twentieth century -- ch. 6. Nurse practitioners and the prescription pad, 1965-1980 -- ch. 7. Prescriptive authority for advanced practice nurses, 1980-2000 -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index.
LCCN 2006025073
ISBN9780814210505 (cloth : alk. paper) :
ISBN0814210503 (cloth : alk. paper)

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