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For textbooks, many schools used: A Manual of Training (1878); A Hand-Book of Nursing for Family and General Use (1878); A Text-Book of Nursing for the Use of Training Schools, Families, and Private Students (1885); and Nursing: Its Principles and Practice for Hospital and Private Use (1893). These books defined the curriculum of the new ...
The chief nurse is a registered nurse who supervises the care of all the patients at a health care facility. The chief nurse is the senior nursing management position in an organization and often holds executive titles like chief nursing officer (CNO), chief nurse executive, or vice-president of nursing. They typically report to the CEO or COO.
Hilda Bowen (1923–2002), credited with establishing the modern nursing profession in The Bahamas; Peggy Boyd (1905–1999), one of Scotland's first air ambulance nurses; served during World War II; Jo Brand (born 1957), British nurse-turned-comedian; Elsa Brändström (1888–1948), Swedish World War I Red Cross nurse in Siberia
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While the concept of comfort is as old as the nursing profession, Kolcaba's theory allowed for objective measurement of comfort and defined features central to the concept of comfort. [4] The Theory of Comfort considers the concepts of relief, ease and transcendence across four dimensions - physical, psychospiritual, sociocultural and ...
Plaques listing Matrons of Manchester Royal Infirmary. The chief nurse, in other words the person in charge of nursing in a hospital and the head of the nursing staff, is also known as the Chief Nursing officer or Chief Nursing Executive, senior nursing officer, [1] matron, [2] nursing officer, [3] or clinical nurse manager in UK English; the head nurse or director of nursing in US English, [4 ...
The Living Legend designation from the American Academy of Nursing is bestowed upon a very small number of nurses "in recognition of the multiple contributions these individuals have made to our profession and our society and in recognition of the continuing impact of these contributions on the provision of health care services in the United States and throughout the world."
Reality Shock: Why Nurses Leave Nursing Marlene F. Kramer was an American nurse, educator and author. She wrote a 1974 book, Reality Shock: Why Nurses Leave Nursing , which examined burnout in the nursing profession.