Nursing Education in a Changing Society - 9780802061126

Nursing Education in a Changing SocietyAuthor(s): Mary Q. Innis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802061126, 978-0802061126\nSynopsis\nRapid social change and the advances made in the field of health care have greatly changed the role and function of the nurse in the last fifty years. Nursing is now almost a full-fledged profession.\n\n This book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the School of Nursing of the University of Toronto. The field it covers is wide and varied from care of the sick by the nuns of early Quebec to the development of pre-paid nursing plans, from concepts of \""beside nursing\"" to \""delivery health services.\"" There are long looks into the future of nursing education and health care which include descriptions of health science centres, diagnosis by computer, and treatment centres in outer space. The book sketches the history of this pioneer school of nursing, surveys nursin.