Survey of Nursing Education in Canada

Survey of Nursing Education in Canada
Author: George Moir Weir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 602
Release: 1932
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

1. Background 2. Historical Sidelights and Evolutionary Tendencies 3. Is Nursing a Profession? 4. The private Duty Nurse 5. The Institutional Nurse 6. The Institutional Nurse 7. The Public Health Nurse 8. The Superintendent of Nurses 9. The Student Nurse 10. Intelligence of Student Nurses 11. The Nurse and the Medical Profession 12. Instructors of Student Nurses 13. The Training School 14. Nursing Registries 15. Methods of Teaching and Learning 16. The Examination System 17. The Curriculum 18. Does the Nurse Need to be Educated 19. The Appraisal of the Patient 20. The Nurse and the Public 21. Supply and Demand 22. Some Administrative Costs 23. The State and Public Health 25. Control and Supervision Appendices.

Place and Practice in Canadian Nursing History

Place and Practice in Canadian Nursing History
Author: Jayne Elliott
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2009-05-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0774858664

The close association between nurses and hospitals obscures the diversity and complexity of nursing work in other contexts. This collection looks at nurses and nursing in a wide range of settings from the mid-1800s to the 1970s, including indigenous women on the Canadian prairies; First World War nurses posted overseas; outpost nurses in rural and remote areas of Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec; public health nurses in Winnipeg; and religious congregations in nursing education in New Brunswick. The contributors use feminist and historical perspectives to illustrate how place, understood as both social context and geographic setting, shaped nursing identities and practices. Many nurses found place both liberating and constraining � often simultaneously. Paying attention to place also situates these nurses and their work within larger historical themes of nation-building, war, and political change.

The Future of Nursing

The Future of Nursing
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2011-02-08
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309208955

The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.

Annual Review of Nursing Research

Annual Review of Nursing Research
Author: Joyce J. Fitzpatrick, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 305
Release: 1986-04-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0826165257

In this multidisciplinary guide on the important issues surrounding dying and bereavement in today's health care and social environment, the contributions examine the issues of death and dying as a continuum, from death education and care of the dying to grief and bereavement. Features Include: Personal stories introducing each section New chapter on physical therapy with the dying.

Nursing Education in Canada

Nursing Education in Canada
Author: Helen K. Mussallem
Publisher: Duhamel, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1965
Genre: Nurses
ISBN:

One of the studies prepared for the Royal Commission on Health Services in Canada (1961-65). Examines and analyzes all types of educational programmes for personnel providing nursing care, with the emphasis on programmes designed to prepare nurses for registration in the provinces. Complements "Sociological factors affecting recruitment into the nursing profession."

Public Policy and Canadian Nursing

Public Policy and Canadian Nursing
Author: Michael J. Villeneuve
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2017-08-18
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 155130970X

Public Policy and Canadian Nursing: Lessons from the Field is the first text to explore the structure, governance, financing, and outcomes of Canadian health systems through a nursing lens. Drawing from his years of experience as a nursing leader in Canada, Michael J. Villeneuve looks to the impending system challenges for which policy interventions by nurses would make a valuable difference to Canadians. Intended to bolster the policy leadership competency of nurses, this volume is divided into three modules that guide nurses from the basics of Canadian governance to the history and evolution of health care in Canada and the tools and strategies needed to tackle public policy work. The author introduces readers to essential topics in health policy, including system financing and costs, Canadian population health status, and performance outcomes. Citing examples of nursing action and interventions throughout, this groundbreaking text offers practical tools and strategies to support Canadian nurses taking on policy development and highlights the vital role of the nursing profession in health system transformation. Reader-friendly and highly accessible, it features brief profiles of influential public policy leaders in nursing and other disciplines, discussion questions appropriate for undergraduate and graduate nursing students, and additional policy resources.

Nursing Education in a Changing Society

Nursing Education in a Changing Society
Author: Mary Q. Innis
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1970-12-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1487590431

Rapid social change and the advances made in the field of health care have greatly changed the role and function of the nurse in the last fifty years. Nursing is now almost a full-fledged profession. This book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the School of Nursing of the University of Toronto. The field it covers is wide and varied – from care of the sick by the nuns of early Quebec to the development of pre-paid nursing plans, from concepts of "beside nursing" to "delivery health services." There are long looks into the future of nursing education and health care which include descriptions of health science centres, diagnosis by computer, and treatment centres in outer space. The book sketches the history of this pioneer school of nursing, surveys nursing legislation, and examines the rise of the public-health nurse and the nursing assistant. Essays contributed by leading Canadian authorities show a wide range of opinion: one writer wants to see the scope of nursing education enlarged, another thinks it is too broad already. At a time when nursing education is becoming an increasingly controversial subject, this book will be of interest and value to all those in the health field.

For Patients of Moderate Means

For Patients of Moderate Means
Author: David Paul Gagan
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780773524361

Between 1890 and 1910 scientific and technological innovation transformed the custodial Victorian charity hospital for the sick poor into the primary source of effective acute medical care for all members of society. For the next half century hospitals coped with relentlessly escalating demands for accessibility by both medical indigents and a new clientele of patients able and willing to pay for hospitalization. With limited statutory revenues and unpredictable voluntary support, hospitals taxed paying patients through ever-increasing user fees, offering in return privacy, comfort, service, and medical attendance in private and semi-private wards that were more appealing to middle-class patients than the stark and grudging service of the public wards.

Nursing Research in Canada - E-Book

Nursing Research in Canada - E-Book
Author: Geri LoBiondo-Wood
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1771720239

The third edition of Nursing Research in Canada provides a comprehensive introduction to research concepts and methods. Easy to understand and set entirely within a Canadian context, this new edition examines the various roles of research in nursing, application and analysis, and coverage of evidence-informed practice. The companion study guide allows students to further practice and hone the critiquing skills discussed in the textbook. Improved balance of coverage of qualitative and quantitative research Introduction of Practical Applicatoin boxes throughout Discussion of the use of new technologies in nursing research Enhanced practical examples of conducting, using and applying research findings