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E D Baer

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Nursing's divided loyalties: an historical case study.

Using the historical version of the case study method, this research explored an example of turn-of-the-century nurses' conflicted loyalties. One training school alumnae association was examined to demonstrate that nurses acted out simultaneous loyalty to competing entities: individual graduates attributes vs. associational eligibility requirements; member vs. institutions' needs; and local vs. national nursing concerns. As a result of these divided loyalties, the nurses did not meet the alumnae organizational goals they set for themselves.

Economics, Nursing↗
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'A cooperative venture' in pursuit of professional status: a research journal for nursing.

Increased demand for nurses to provide post-World War II expanded health care services compelled the government to create the financial and programmatic resources necessary to meet that demand. These resources, located mainly in academic institutions, required nurses to achieve the same credentials that obtain in other academic disciplines. The research activities spawned in this process needed a publishing outlet and nurse-educators created Nursing Research to provide that outlet. But some nurses always did research of a sort. The publication of Nursing Research in 1952 signified public, institutional recognition for research in nursing. Nurses initially approached the process of research in a manner that typified quintessential nursing procedure. Intently focused on process, the editors used the journal to teach the research process, yet did not define what constituted a proper study until 1959. All but a few focused on "doing" research and following correct procedures. Researchers mainly investigated practical questions addressing day-to-day issues of interest to the investigator--whether clinician, teacher, or manager. Creative ideas were not their central concerns. Although the journal's content changed over the years, its process of socializing nurses into the intricacies of research persisted until the 1980s. How to do research, the focus of the 1950s, became what is methodology in the 1960s, what is theory and how to get funded in the 1970s. The 1980s brought to fruition the journal's professional agenda to publish fully developed, frequently funded, theory-grounded research articles of which at least half consistently reported clinical studies. Increased replication to improve predictability and wider application in nursing practice comprise the current agenda.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Education, Nursing↗
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Patient and situational factors that affect nursing students' like or dislike of caring for patients.

The purpose of this study was to identify certain characteristics of the patient or the helping situation that evoke in nursing students positive or negative feelings about caring for patients. Causes nursing students spontaneously gave for their feelings about caring for patients were examined. Results provided some support for the perception that nurses may not be responsive to certain patients. The nursing students liked best caring for patients who were cheerful and communicative. They also liked to care for patients who were in pain, patients they viewed as needing high levels of nursing care, and patients who responded positively to their attempts to minister.

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Nursing's divided house--an historical view.

The method of historical analysis was used in this study to examine the nature and scope of the divisions in nursing in America in the last third of the 19th century. The article presents the story of nursing's reform origins, describes the post-Civil War social context, and discusses changes particularly relevant to women. The development of nursing reflected the country's uncertainty and turbulence. The divisions that emerged in nursing are demonstrated by the three conflicting schemes for organizing nursing in hospitals in the late 1800s: (1) The original Nightingale model, adapted by the first (1873) American schools, kept nursing separate from hospital and medical domination but supervised by Boards of Lady Managers; (2) the Linda Richards model, initiated at Boston City Hospital in 1878, subjected nursing to medical control; and (3) the professional model, espoused by Isabel Hampton toward the century's close, sought self-regulation for nursing.

Education, Nursing↗