Nursing History Review

Springer,

2013 Nursing History Review

doi: 10.1891/1062-8061.21.10pmid: 23901624

Lewenson, Sandra B.

2013 Nursing History Review

doi: 10.1891/1062-8061.21.14pmid: 23901625

<p>During the mid-20th century, nursing leaders advocated moving nursing education out of hospital-based programs and into colleges and universities for the purpose of preparing nurses to meet the demands of increasingly complex health care situations. Nursing leaders in New York City’s municipal hospitals recognized the value of this change and sought to increase the number of baccalaureate-prepared nurses to fill the many vacancies within city hospitals. This article examines the political support New York gave to the expansion of Hunter College’s baccalaureate program in nursing (a college within the City University of New York system) while closing the almost 100-year-old Bellevue and Mills Schools of Nursing diploma program. The efforts to change nursing at Bellevue started in the 1940s, but the transfer to Hunter College was not realized until 1967. Although the decision to close the diploma school met resistance among various stakeholders, the expansion ultimately succeeded. It was supported by the New York City Department of Hospitals and received approval from the Board of Estimates and Board of Higher Education. Both Bellevue and Hunter’s leadership was ready to make this change and participated in this transformation.</p>

Kreutzer, Susanne

2013 Nursing History Review

doi: 10.1891/1062-8061.21.33pmid: 23901626

<p>The School of Nursing at Heidelberg University was founded in 1953 on the initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation to generate new, scientifically trained nursing elite to advance the professionalization of nursing in West Germany. The “American” concept met massive resistance. Its “superior nursing training” was seen as creating “Hollywood nurses”—a threat to the traditional Christian understanding of good, caring nursing. Intense social conflicts also caused problems with other groups of nurses. The school nevertheless played a very important role as a “cadre academy” in the history of professionalization. Many of the first German professors in the nursing sciences trained or underwent further training in Heidelberg.</p>

McNamara, Martin S.;Fealy, Gerard M.;Geraghty, Ruth

2013 Nursing History Review

doi: 10.1891/1062-8061.21.55pmid: 23901627

<p>Responses to the rise of antimicrobial resistance in Europe and North America included establishment of special hospital infection control teams of a microbiologist and a nurse. Based on the testimonies of seven infection control nurses in Irish hospitals appointed during 1979–1990, this article examines the early development and expressions of their disciplinary practice.<xref>¹</xref> Fairman’s model of collaborative practice was used to examine the context in which the role emerged, the places practice was negotiated and mutually constructed, and exemplars of collaborative practice. Aspects of the relationship between theory and method in Wengraf’s biographical narrative interpretive method (BNIM) used to generate the nurses’ accounts of their early experiences in the role are highlighted. Practice was contingent on effective negotiation of places of practice, and disciplinary practice bore hallmarks of collaborative practice. The infection control nurse transitioned from conspicuous outsider and object of suspicion to valued resource for patients and staff. Infection control nursing came to be a prototype for new specialist nursing roles in hospitals.</p>

Springer,

2013 Nursing History Review

doi: 10.1891/1062-8061.21.76pmid: 23901628

McBain, Lesley

2013 Nursing History Review

doi: 10.1891/1062-8061.21.80pmid: 23901629

Coombs-Thorne, Heidi

2013 Nursing History Review

doi: 10.1891/1062-8061.21.89pmid: 23901630

Scharton, Kathryn

2013 Nursing History Review

doi: 10.1891/1062-8061.21.97pmid: 23901631

Springer,

2013 Nursing History Review

doi: 10.1891/1062-8061.21.109

Springer,

2013 Nursing History Review

doi: 10.1891/1062-8061.21.119