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Nursing the Community, a Look Back at the 1984 Dialogue Between Virginia A. Henderson and Sherry L. Shamansky
Author(s) -
Abrams Sarah E.
Publication year - 2007
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.1525-1446.2007.00647.x
Subject(s) - public health nursing , nursing , public health , community health , nursing research , scope (computer science) , health care , sociology , gerontology , medicine , political science , law , computer science , programming language
Dr. Sherry L. Shamansky, one of the founding editors of Public Health Nursing , interviewed renowned 20th‐century leader, Virginia Avenal Henderson (1897–1996), then research associate emeritus at Yale University School of Nursing, about the nursing of “aggregates.” Their discussion, originally published in Public Health Nursing , in 1984 (Vol. 1, No. 4), highlights Henderson's views about the scope of nursing, health care organization and funding, and perceived tension between direct care of the sick in the community and preventive activities directed toward communities or populations at risk. Readers familiar with Henderson's influential definition of nursing may find her responses to interview questions helpful in understanding her view of the opportunities and challenges faced by public or community health nurses of the time.