Nursing and surgery: professionalisation, education and innovation

Rosemary Wall, Christine E. Hallett

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    Abstract

    Nurses played an essential role in the major developments in surgery between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. This chapter focuses on the Anglo-American world, weaving in original research with a historiographical review. Three strands run through the chapter—professionalisation, education, and innovation. Professionalisation includes the changing role and perception of nurses within both hospital and military arenas. Textbooks reveal the changing surgical knowledge required for nursing, but also illustrate continuity in education and in practices, such as preparing a domestic home for surgery, which nurses did well into the twentieth century.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPalgrave Handbook of the History of Surgery
    EditorsThomas Schlich
    Place of PublicationBasingstoke
    PublisherPalgrave Macmillan Ltd.
    Pages153-174
    Number of pages22
    ISBN (Electronic)9781349952601
    ISBN (Print)9781349952595, 9781349957774
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 25 Jan 2018

    Keywords

    • general nurses
    • surgical nursing
    • scrub nurses
    • mobile army surgical hospital (MASHs)
    • Helmstadter

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