Frontier Nursing in Appalachia: History, Organization and the Changing Culture of Care

• Main Author: West, Edie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Nursing-Study and teaching.; Health administration.; Social medicine.; Nursing Education.; Health Administration.; Medical Sociology.

This book provides a historical analysis of the Frontier Nursing Services in the Eastern Appalachians of the United States, as well as a review of the oral history tradition of former frontier and non-frontier nurses. The data was gathered from 2003 to 2007, and the historical part covers the years...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Background and Introduction to the Frontier Nursing Service
• Rights, Place and Claims: Culture and Communication in Appalachia
• Diplomacy or Colonial Tendencies: Breckinridge in Appalachia
• Centralized versus Decentralized Power Structures in Appalachia
• 'Morally Uninhabitable' or 'Just Modern Organizational' Workplaces
• Gender and Role Assignments in the Institutional Hierarchy
• Moral Inhabitability and Educational Environments
• Recruitment, Retention and Morally Inhabitable Environments
• Cultural Identity, Public Image and Frontier Nursing
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• Glossary.