TY - GEN N2 - 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. N2 - 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. AB - 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. AB - 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. T1 - Nurses on the front linewhen disaster strikes, 1878-2010 / DA - c2010. CY - New York, NY : AU - Wall, Barbra Mann. AU - Keeling, Arlene Wynbeek, CN - Proquest Ebook Central CN - RT116 PB - Springer, PP - New York, NY : PY - c2010. ID - 438031 KW - Disaster nursing KW - Nursing SN - 9780826105202 TI - Nurses on the front linewhen disaster strikes, 1878-2010 / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=584759 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=584759 ER -