The Norma Marion Alloway Library presents our new series The Love of Reading to encourage us to expand our minds into different subject areas and explore a selection of ebooks from the safety of your home.

The week of May 11 to 17 is National Nursing Week, so what better way to begin our series by honouring our health care professionals.

Below is a small selection of ebooks  on the subject, “history of Nursing“; click on the link for more information. To find additional titles in this subject area, simply enter the subject terms into the Library OneSearch box and then refine your search by selecting “ebooks“.

Enjoy exploring these ebooks today!

Florence Nightingale, Nursing, and Health Care Today / McDonald, Lynn.
This tile examines Florence Nightingale who pioneered evidence-based health care, campaigned for hospital safety, promoted economic opportunities for women, and mentored two generations of nursing leaders. The author focuses on Nightingale’s core nursing concepts: gender and women’s issues, education, health promotion, infection control, professional ethics, pediatrics, and palliative care, and how they have transcended time to influence professional nursing today.

Histories of Nursing Practice / Fealy, Gerard M., Christine E. Dietz, Suzanne Malchau.
This title examines the history of nursing practice, particularly clinical work in Europe and North America within time, place and context, but demonstrates remarkable commonalities and continuities across geographical and temporal borders.

 

Nursing History for Contemporary Role Development / Lewenson, Sandra, Annemarie McAllister, and Kylie M. Smith.
This title delves into the intricacies of nursing history and its impact on contemporary nursing practice, education, and research. This title examines the complex story of how the role of nurses has changed over time to adapt to new environments and needs, all the while retaining the key leadership and advocacy roles that have been inherent since the birth of the profession.

Nursing Rural America: Perspectives from the Early 20th Century /Keeling, Adriene Wynbeek, and John C. Kirchgessner.
This title traces the history of rural nursing during the first half of the 20th century through nine case histories and describes nursing care for populations including adults, children, itinerant tenant farmers, and rural poor throughout the continental United States. This title provides an analysis of past rural nursing and showcased how nurses served diverse populations lacking a quality health care infrastructure.

One Hundred Years of Wartime Nursing Practices, 1854-1953 /Hallett, Christine E., Jane Brooks.
This title explores the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. In its examination of multiple nursing roles during the wars, it considers the responsiveness of nursing work, as crisis scenarios gave rise to improvisation and the – sometimes quite dramatic – breaking of practice boundaries.