| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Origins and obligations -- Motherhood: a career -- Dreams and visions -- Blazing the trail -- Squeezing out the gold -- Winning patients' trust -- Praying for better times ahead -- The challenges of war -- A woman's world -- Wide neighborhoods -- Changing times -- Stepping into the wings |
| Summary |
In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nurse-midwifery to the United States and created a highly successful, cost-effective model for rural health care delivery that has been replicated throughout the world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-339) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965.
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Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965 |
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Breckinridge, Mary. |
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Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.
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Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. |
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Frontier Nursing Service |
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Nurses -- Appalachian Region -- Biography -- History
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Nurses
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History, 20th Century
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Nursing Services -- history
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Rural Health Services -- history
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nurses.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Medical & Surgical.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Reference.
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Nurses
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Appalachian Region |
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Appalachian Region
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007049300 |
| ISBN |
9781469606644 |
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146960664X |
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