TY  - BOOK
AU  - Whelan,Jean C.
TI  - Nursing the nation: building the nurse labor force 
T2  - Critical issues in health and medicine
SN  - 9780813585994
AV  - RT86.75.U65 W44 2021eb
U1  - 331.12/91362173 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Nurses
KW  - Supply and demand
KW  - Employment
KW  - Nursing
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Have cap will travel : how and why nurses became professionals -- Starting out : organizing the work and the profession -- Supplying nurses : the central registry business -- Surpluses, shortages and segregation -- Private duty's golden age -- The Great Depression : collapse, resurrection, and success -- More and more (and better) nurses -- Conclusion
N2  - Modern health care cannot exist without professional nurses. Throughout the twentieth century, there was seldom a sustained period when the supply of nurses was equal to demand. Nursing the Nation offers a historical analysis of the relationship between the development of nurse employment arrangements with patients and institutions and the appearance of nurse shortages from 1890 to 1950. The response to nursing supply and demand problems by health care institutions and policy-making organizations failed to address nurse workforce issues adequately, and this failure resulted in, at times, profound and lengthy nurse shortages. Nurses also lost the ability to control their own destiny within health care institutions while nevertheless establishing themselves as the most critical part of health care provision today
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