Nursing's Greatest Leaders: A History of Activism
Nursing's Greatest Leaders: A History of Activism
Editor: Forrester, David Anthony
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
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$97.48
ISBN: 978-0-82-613007-5
Category: Health & Medicine - Nursing
Image Count:
10
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
With an emphasis on the qualities that have fostered strong nursing leadership, this book provides a unique perspective on the lives and achievements of the most revered nurses throughout history. It is comprised of biographies of many of nursings most important activist agents of change, with a focus on those characteristics that enabled them to accomplish their goals and implement changes that improved nursing, health, healthcare, and society.
Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword - Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Introduction
- 1. Exemplary Nursing Leadership - David Anthony Forrester
- Why Study Exemplary Nursing Leadership Within the Context of Nursing History?
- What Is Leadership and What Is Exemplary Nursing Leadership?
- What Is the Difference Between Nursing Leadership and Nursing Management?
- What Are the Essential Traits or Characteristics of Exemplary Nurse Leaders?
- Five Practices of Exemplary Nursing Leadership
- Summary
- Part II: Modeling the Way
- 2. Florence Nightingale: Where Most Work Is Wanted - Frances Ward
- Radicalization
- Modeling the Way in Practice
- Modeling the Way in War
- Modeling the Way in Peace
- The End of Empire
- An Improving Woman
- Demystification
- Timeline
- Questions for Discussion
- Part III: Inspiring a Shared Vision
- 3. Mother Mary Aikenhead: A Life of Vision - Deborah Cleeter
- Childhood
- The Novitiate
- Inspiring a Shared Vision
- Foundress, Congregation of Irish Sisters of Charity
- Ministries for Prisons, Schools, and Orphanages
- Hospitals, Nursing, and Hospice
- Leading in the Face of Personal Struggle
- Global Legacy
- Journey Toward Canonization
- Exemplary Leadership
- Timeline
- Questions for Discussion
- 4. Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield - Karen Egenes and Frances Vlasses
- Early Efforts to Inspire a Shared Vision
- Developing the Tools to Inspire a Shared Vision
- Role Models for Inspiring a Shared Vision—Clara Barton in Europe
- Inspiring a Shared Vision—Developing New Strategies
- Inspiring a Shared Vision on a Local Level
- Inspiring a Shared Vision Abroad—International Relief Efforts
- Inspiring a Shared Vision—In Time of War
- Attainment of the Vision
- Clara Barton's Leadership Legacy
- Timeline
- Questions for Discussion
- Part IV: Challenging the Process
- 5. Margaret Higgins Sanger: The Law Shall Be Broken - Patricia K. Hindin
- The Law Shall Be Broken
- Early Years
- The Making of Margaret Sanger
- Public Service and Progress in Birth Control
- Major Accomplishments
- Timeline
- Questions for Discussion
- 6. Sister Elizabeth Kenny: Conviction and Controversy - Mary Kamienski
- Nature Versus Nurture
- The Vision
- Commitment to the Vision
- Beyond Polio
- Societal Values
- Not a Nurse
- The Reality of Polio
- The American Frontier
- The War Rages On
- Timeline
- Questions for Discussion
- 7. Clara Louise Maass: Servant Leader Undaunted - Carol Emerson Winters
- Spending Childhood as an Adult
- Training School for Nurses
- The Spanish–American War
- Nursing Soldiers With Yellow Fever
- Nursing American Troops in the Philippine Islands
- Annulment of Nursing Contract and Return Home to New Jersey
- The Yellow Fever Commission Is Established in Cuba
- Returning to Cuba to Nurse Yellow Fever Patients
- Clara Maass Volunteers to Be Bitten by Infected Mosquitoes
- Clara Maass Develops Yellow Fever
- Posthumous Honors
- Modeling the Way
- Challenging the Process
- Timeline
- Questions for Discussion
- Part V: Enabling Others to Act
- 8. Dorothea Lynde Dix: Privilege, Passion, and Reform - Barbara Ann Caldwell
- Setting the Stage: The Influence of Family
- Enacting Nontraditional Female Roles: Educator and Writer
- Finding Mentors: Religious and Educational Commitment
- Political Leadership and the Moral Movement
- Developing Leadership Expertise and Campaigning for Change
- Prisoners’ Letters and Expansion of Leadership
- Transition to National Leadership
- International Leadership and Recognition
- Caught in a Power Struggle
- Timeline
- Questions for Discussion
- 9. Lillian D. Wald: Pioneer of Public Health - Mary Ann Christopher, Regina Hawkey, and Mary Christine Jared
- An Age of Transformation
- Early Life
- Building on the Public Health and Settlement Movements
- Empowering Communities to Help Themselves
- Mobilizing Social Institutions to Improve the Health of Communities
- Enlisting Philanthropic and Business Interests to Promote the Public's Health
- Exemplary Leadership in Action: The Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918–1919
- Lillian Wald's Legacy as a Leader—Alive and Well Today
- A Community in Crisis: VNSNY's Response to Superstorm Sandy
- Timeline
- Questions for Discussion
- 10. Mary Breckinridge: Angel on Horseback - Denise M. Tate
- Nursing Leadership
- Family and Early Life
- Later Life
- Challenging the Process
- Inspiring a Shared Vision
- Attention! Nurse Graduates
- The Creation of Wendover
- Encouraging the Heart
- Enabling Others to Act
- Modeling the Way
- The Passing of Mary Breckinridge
- Mary Breckinridge Hospital
- Breckinridge Honored
- Mary Breckinridge's Leadership Legacy
- Timeline
- Questions for Discussion
- Part VI: Encouraging the Heart
- 11. Edith Louisa Cavell: Courage in the Face of Duty - Barbara J. Patterson
- Assuming Her Duty to Humanity
- Encouraging the Heart: Changing Nursing in Belgium
- Encouraging the Heart: The Matron
- Leadership Lessons From Edith Cavell and World War I
- Edith Cavell's Leadership Legacy
- Timeline
- Questions for Discussion
- Part VII: The Future
- 12. Nurses Leading Change: The Time Is Now! - Susan W. Salmond and David Anthony Forrester
- An Unsustainable U.S. Health System: High Cost Without High Return in Health Outcomes
- Re-Visioning Health Care
- A New Context: The Time Is Now for Nursing and Nurse Leaders
- The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
- Preparing Nurse Leaders for a New Future
- Questions for Discussion