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Author Fealy, Gerard M

Title A history of apprenticeship nurse training in Ireland / Gerard M. Fealy
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in nursing history
Routledge studies in nursing history.
Contents Charity, medical relief and precursors of the modern nurse -- Nursing arrangements : nursing policy in Dublin in the late nineteenth century -- Hospitals in transition : two case studies of nursing reform -- Exemplary conduct and character : the lady nurses of the Dublin hospitals -- Professional regulation and the General Nursing Council for Ireland -- Knowledge of her work : the curriculum, c. 1899-1949 -- The Nursing Board and the training experience, 1950-1979 -- From the hospital to the academy, 1980-1994
Summary Based on new research using previously unpublished sources, this compelling text is an in-depth study of the history of nurse education in Ireland, presenting a new authoritative account of the history of the traditional system of training in Ireland. Introduced as part of the reforms of hospital nursing in the late nineteenth century, apprenticeship nurse training was a vocational extension of secondary education. Residing outside the mainstream of higher educational provision it provided nurses with the knowledge and technical skills for sick nursing, whilst also functioning to soc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-193) and index
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Subject Nursing -- Study and teaching -- Ireland -- History
Nursing -- Ireland -- History
Education, Nursing -- history
History of Nursing
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Research & Theory.
Nursing
Nursing -- Study and teaching
SUBJECT Ireland. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063445
Ireland
Subject Ireland
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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