American Nursing: From Hospitals to Health Systems

by Joan E. Lynaugh

American nurses have changed in the last generation. This transformation is manifested in their education, clinical responsibility, and in the huge increase in their numbers relative to the population. During recent decades the scope of nurses' practice expanded to include many new responsibilities, including work formerly in the province of physicians, as well as entirely new functions. Today the term nurse encompasses a wider and more complex spectrum...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1577180461
• ISBN13: 9781577180463
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"