Nurses on the front line [electronic resource] : when disaster strikes, 1878-2010 / Barbra Mann Wall, Arlene Keeling ; editors.
Wall, Barbra Mann.; Keeling, Arlene Wynbeek, 1948-
2010
RT116 .N87 2010eb
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Title Nurses on the front line [electronic resource] : when disaster strikes, 1878-2010 / Barbra Mann Wall, Arlene Keeling ; editors.
ISBN 9780826105202
9780826105196
Imprint New York, NY : Springer, c2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 291 p.) : ill., map.
Call Number RT116 .N87 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 610.73/49
Summary Uses firsthand experiences to examine how nurses have responded to both man-made and natural disasters. Includes an analysis of the role of nurses in community response and investigates the roles and effects of race, class, and gender during a disaster.
This book examines how nurses have responded to natural and man-made disasters in the in the US and Canada over the course of the previous and current centuries. It identifies the care delivered during various disasters; explicates how nurses at the local level intersected with the American Red Cross (ARC), American Nurses Association (ANA), the U.S. Public Health Service, and other federal/state organizations; describes how this intersection changed over time; and analyzes how issues of race, class, and gender influenced the ways nurses and other health care professionals responded to disaste.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Added Author Wall, Barbra Mann.
Keeling, Arlene Wynbeek, 1948-
Available in Other Form Nurses on the front line.
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