Health care has changed a great deal since Muriel Jarvis was a young nurse in Saskatoon in the 1940s; nursing has been transformed, and the status of women revolutionized. The inspiring story of a girl from Kenaston, Saskatchewan, who...
Nursing
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Auteur:Jarvis, Muriel, Vandergoot, Mary EllenSommaire: -
Auteur:Brown, TheresaSommaire:Practicing nurse and regular contributor to the New York Times Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day in a busy teaching hospital's cancer ward.
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The late Victorian period brought a radical change in cultural attitudes toward middle-class women and work. Anxiety over the growing disproportion between women and men in the population, combined with an awakening desire among young...
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Auteur:Green, H. GordonSommaire:“It’s tempting Providence, it is!” he kept saying. “Sail this here ship on Friday the thirteenth? With all them blinkin’ mines still loose in the sea? It’s only askin’ for trouble, that’s all!”
This was the warning given to Nurse...
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The issues of soundness of qualitative research are examined in this book. Contributors discuss how a researcher does qualitative research, considering such questions as: whether one deviates from the developer's protocol and what the...
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Auteur:Armstrong-Reid, SusanSommaire:The Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) had a devastating impact on China’s population. Braving bandits and disease, the China Convoy – a Quaker-sponsored humanitarian unit – provided medical relief in the unoccupied territory of “Free China”...
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Auteur:Lombard, Rosalie M.Sommaire:Like other children of the 1930s, I read about the adventures of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, who worked among fishermen in a very cold, icy place way up north called Newfoundland and Labrador . . .
It was many years later...
