Nursing in the US: A History of People and Places

美国的护理：人和地方的历史

基本信息

批准号：
7056178
负责人：
PATRICIA D'ANTONIO
金额：
$ 7.37万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2004
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2004-06-01 至 2008-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project integrates the traditional focus on institutional and organizationally based nursing practice with a significantly broader focus that also includes the meaning and practice of nursing within families and communities. It focuses on 19th and early 20th century nursing in the United States. This project conceptualizes nursing as both a particular kind work and a particular process of identity development. The project will argue that individuals chose nursing not just for meaningful work but also for the power and the gendered salience it brought to lives lived within local families and communities. It will present the choices made by nursing men and women as those that strengthened their positions within their individual communities. It will also provide a broader historical perspective on the social, political, class, and gendered processes through which individual people, local events, and customary ideas forged a sense of professional identity that simultaneously maintained ethnic, religious, and racial distinctiveness. Nurses have historically represented a much broader cross section of American women and some men than most comparable disciplinary groups, and their experiences are thus more generalizable. This project is also deliberately national in scope, comparing and contrasting the experiences of nursing women and men in the northeast, the southern states, the Utah frontier, and California. This project captures relevant data through analysis of documents about nurses found in archival family papers throughout the above-identified regions of the country. The place of this data within more extensive collections allows one to consider these individual nursing experiences within a broader family, community, and social perspective. Finally, the intersection between place and gender will illustrate how nineteenth and early twentieth century nurses, involved in local events and influenced by customary and socially resonate ideas still forged a broadly based, purposeful, and dedicated sense of mission predicated on gendered ways of "being with" and "doing to" others.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目将传统的对基于机构和组织的护理实践的关注与更广泛的关注结合起来，其中还包括家庭和社区内护理的含义和实践。它专注于 19 世纪和 20 世纪初美国的护理。该项目将护理概念化为一种特殊的工作和一种特殊的身份发展过程。该项目认为，人们选择护理不仅是为了有意义的工作，也是因为它给当地家庭和社区的生活带来了权力和性别显着性。它将介绍护理人员所做的选择，以加强他们在各自社区中的地位。它还将为社会、政治、阶级和性别进程提供更广泛的历史视角，通过这些进程，个人、当地事件和习惯观念形成了一种职业认同感，同时保持了民族、宗教和种族的独特性。从历史上看，与大多数可比学科群体相比，护士代表了更广泛的美国女性和一些男性群体，因此她们的经验更具普遍性。该项目还特意在全国范围内进行，比较和对比东北部、南部各州、犹他州边境和加利福尼亚州的女性和男性护理经历。该项目通过分析在全国上述地区的家庭档案文件中发现的有关护士的文件来获取相关数据。这些数据在更广泛的收集中的位置允许人们在更广泛的家庭、社区和社会视角下考虑这些个人护理经历。最后，地点和性别之间的交叉点将说明十九世纪和二十世纪初的护士如何参与当地活动并受到习俗和社会共鸣思想的影响，仍然形成了一种基于性别“存在”方式的基础广泛、有目的和奉献的使命感。与他人”和“对他人做事”。