Family and Community Health
Volume 37, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 170-178
"something Must Be Done!": Public Health Nursing Education in the United States from 1900 to 1950 (Review)
Kulbok P.A.* ,
Glick D.F.
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Departments of Nursing, University of Virginia School of Nursing, 1215 Lee St, Charlottesville, VA 22908, United States
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Departments of Nursing, University of Virginia School of Nursing, 1215 Lee St, Charlottesville, VA 22908, United States, Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Nursing, 1215 Lee St, Charlottesville, VA 22908, United States
Abstract
This article examines public health nursing (PHN) education in the United States from 1900 to 1950. Following establishment of district nursing and the Henry Street Settlement in the late 1800s, nurses worked with families and communities in schools, homes, and with immigrant populations in tenements of industrialized cities. By the early 1900s, PHN leaders recognized that graduates needed broader education than provided by hospital training schools to prepare nurses to address social conditions and promote health and hygiene for populations. Current themes in professional nursing, such as social determinants of health, have their roots in early discourse about PHN education. Copyright © 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84902212140&doi=10.1097%2fFCH.0000000000000029&partnerID=40&md5=da16b671a969cad5cf682802605baaae
DOI: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000029
ISSN: 01606379
Cited by: 1
Original Language: English