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The Nurse Apprentice, 1860-1977
Ann Bradshaw
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The British apprenticeship model of nurse training, developed under Florence Nightingale's influence from 1860 at St Thomas's Hospital, gained national and world-wide recognition. Its end was heralded with the publication of the last national syllabus from the General Nursing Council for England and Wales in 1977. This apprenticeship model, a crucial part of the history of British health care for over a century, is the subject of this book. Primary evidence, much of it original, is gained from Parliamentary debates and reports, syllabuses, long neglected nursing textbooks, major governmental and professional reports, and the voices of nurses themselves expressed ... Read more
The British apprenticeship model of nurse training, developed under Florence Nightingale's influence from 1860 at St Thomas's Hospital, gained national and world-wide recognition. Its end was heralded with the publication of the last national syllabus from the General Nursing Council for England and Wales in 1977. This apprenticeship model, a crucial part of the history of British health care for over a century, is the subject of this book. Primary evidence, much of it original, is gained from Parliamentary debates and reports, syllabuses, long neglected nursing textbooks, major governmental and professional reports, and the voices of nurses themselves expressed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Series
The History of Medicine in Context
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780754601722
SKU
V9780754601722
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About Ann Bradshaw
Ann Bradshaw, RCN Institute, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK
Reviews for The Nurse Apprentice, 1860-1977
'Bradshaw's sources are impressive. In addition to archives, she draws extensively on nursing journals and nursing text books, demonstrating their value as a primary source for historical research.' Social History of Medicine Vol. 15, No 2 '...the richness of the source material and the percipient analysis of the same make this book an important contribution to the history of British ... Read more