Thesis ID: CBB001561020

Forging Professional Public Health Nursing in a Southern State: Florida's Public Health Nurses, 1889--1934 (2012)

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Ardalan, Christine (Author)


Florida International University
Wood, Kirsten E.


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Advisor: Wood, Kirsten E.
Physical Details: 339 pp.
Language: English

From 1889 to 1934, Florida's nurses belonging to a new group of professional women ushered in a pioneering phase of public health nursing in Florida. During this era, the nurses' ability to confront health and professional issues varied a great deal but in quiet and forceful ways they tackled cultural and environmental problems to assist people who were ill or help prevent people from becoming ill. This dissertation places the development of professional public health nursing in its social context by uncovering the relationships public health nurses formed with clubwomen, the medical profession, city leaders, midwives, and others. In 1888, there were few graduate nurses in the state, no state board of health and no organized nursing service to respond to Jacksonville's great yellow fever epidemic. By 1934, national and state leaders of public health nursing had built up the profession to become an essential part of the State Board of Health's service to the community. Between these milestones, in the era of white supremacy and Jim Crow, public health nurses combined their professional training with a pioneer spirit of innovation and risk-taking. In the predominately rural state, the public health nurses' resolve to overcome environmental hazards and cultural obstacles stands out as they attempted to reach those who were unserved or underserved by modern medicine.

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Description Cited in ProQuest Diss. & Thes. (2012). ProQuest Doc. ID 1115017314.


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Authors & Contributors
Audrey Hasegawa
Ritch, Alistair
Kang, Jong Hyuk David
D'Antonio, Patricia
Zalashik, Rakefet
Valobra, Adriana
Concepts
Nurses and nursing
Public health
Professions and professionalization
Medicine
Women in medicine
Physicians; doctors
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
Places
United States
England
Germany
France
Hong Kong
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Institutions
American Medical Association
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