Information Systems & Technology for Healthcare Decision-Making in Advanced Practice

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

SECTION I: NURSING INTERVENTIONS: PROVIDING CARE

Chapter 1: Sweating, Purging, and a Passion for Care: The Yellow Fever Nurse in the Deep South in the Early Nineteenth Century

Chapter 2: Determining Children's "Best Interests" in the Midst of an Epidemic: A Cautionary Tale From History

Chapter 3: Treating Infl uenza 1918 and 2010: Recycled Interventions

Chapter 4: "An Obstinate and Sometimes Gangrenous Sore": Prevention and Nursing Care of Bedsores, 1900 to the 1940s

SECTION II: NURSING INTERVENTIONS: OFFERING SERVICE

Chapter 5: Body, Soul, and Service: Catholic Sister-Nurses in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Hospitals

Chapter 6: Bridging the Gaps: Collaborative Health Work in the City of Brotherly Love, 1900-1920

Chapter 7: Filling the Gaps in Community Care: Parish Nurses Working Out of Congregations

SECTION III: NURSING INTERVENTIONS: INFLUENCING CHANGE

Chapter 8: Obstetric Nursing: For the Patient or the Doctor?

Chapter 9: Nursing Patients With Cancer in the 1950s: New Issues and Old Challenges

Chapter 10: Trial and Negotiation in a Technological System: Case Study of the Swan-Ganz Catheter

Chapter 11: Black Canadian Nurses and Technology

SECTION IV: NURSING INTERVENTIONS: NEGOTIATING SPACE

Chapter 12: To Avoid Expense and Suffering: Public Health Nurses and the Struggle for Health Services

Chapter 13: The Visit: Nurse Practitioners and the Negotiation of Practice

Chapter 14: Nursing the Borderlands of Life: Hospice and the Politics of Health Care Reform

Index