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A History of Nursing in the Field of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

A History of Nursing in the Field of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities This cogently argued account is a "must readn for nurses considering a miIitary nursing career. Nurse educators and military, medical and nurse historians also will find it as an authoritative and valued reference text. The only small deficit of the monograph is that it ends after the Vietnam War. I srrongly recommend that the author consider writing another volume covering current Army Nurse Corps history. Dr. Sarnecky states in her preface, "Hope- fully this story will enrich the U.S. Army Nurse Corps' sense of pride, identity and continuity while highlighting threads common to the fabric of Army nursing across the ages" (p. xi). This modest god is greatly surpassed by this exceptionally well-written and thoroughly researched military nursing history, CONSTANCE J. MOORE, MSN, RNC Lieurenant Colonel United States Army Fort Gordon, GA A History of Nursing in the Field of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities By Wendy M. Nehring (Washington, D.C.: American Association on Mcnral Retardation. 1999) This book helps to fill an important gap in understanding nursing's past by focusing on the history of nursing in mental retardation and developmental disabilities (MR-DD) in the United States. It spans two hundred years, from 1800 onward, although the entire nineteenth http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nursing History Review Springer Publishing

A History of Nursing in the Field of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities

Nursing History Review , Volume 9 (1): 3 – Jan 1, 2001

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Springer Publishing
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1062-8061
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1938-1913
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10.1891/1062-8061.9.1.232
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This cogently argued account is a "must readn for nurses considering a miIitary nursing career. Nurse educators and military, medical and nurse historians also will find it as an authoritative and valued reference text. The only small deficit of the monograph is that it ends after the Vietnam War. I srrongly recommend that the author consider writing another volume covering current Army Nurse Corps history. Dr. Sarnecky states in her preface, "Hope- fully this story will enrich the U.S. Army Nurse Corps' sense of pride, identity and continuity while highlighting threads common to the fabric of Army nursing across the ages" (p. xi). This modest god is greatly surpassed by this exceptionally well-written and thoroughly researched military nursing history, CONSTANCE J. MOORE, MSN, RNC Lieurenant Colonel United States Army Fort Gordon, GA A History of Nursing in the Field of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities By Wendy M. Nehring (Washington, D.C.: American Association on Mcnral Retardation. 1999) This book helps to fill an important gap in understanding nursing's past by focusing on the history of nursing in mental retardation and developmental disabilities (MR-DD) in the United States. It spans two hundred years, from 1800 onward, although the entire nineteenth

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Published: Jan 1, 2001

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