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A New Profession: The Evolution of Public Health Nursing
Author(s) -
Frachel Rae R.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1988.tb00763.x
Subject(s) - ideology , public health , public health nursing , nursing , sociology , medicine , political science , law , politics
From its inception in the late nineteenth century, public health nursing has aspired to professional ideology. The life and times of one early leader, Lillian Wald, illustrate the historical, scientific, and social forces that shaped the evolution of the discipline.