Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation

Wall, Rosemary; Hallett, Christine E.

Abstract

Nurses played an essential role in the major developments in surgery between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. This chapter focuses on the Anglo-American world, weaving in original research with a historiographical review. Three strands run through the chapter—professionalisation, education, and innovation. Professionalisation includes the changing role and perception of nurses within both hospital and military arenas. Textbooks reveal the changing surgical knowledge required for nursing, but also illustrate continuity in education and in practices, such as preparing a domestic home for surgery, which nurses did well into the twentieth century.

Citation

Wall, R., & Hallett, C. E. (2017). Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation. In T. Schlich (Ed.), The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery (153-174). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95260-1_8

• Online Publication Date: Dec 14, 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Deposit Date: Jun 11, 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Pages: 153-174
• Book Title: The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery
• ISBN: 978-1-349-95259-5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95260-1_8
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1970883
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-349-95260-1_8