{"id":54,"date":"2010-11-23T09:16:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T18:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/?p=54"},"modified":"2013-01-09T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T21:52:42","slug":"nursing-in-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/nursing-in-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing in American History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Thanksgiving break, we will look at the history of nursing with a close examination of one era (the Civil War) and how it was critical in the development of nursing in America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/clara-barton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/clara-barton.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"clara-barton\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-55\" \/><\/a><strong>For Monday, 11\/29<\/strong> I&#8217;d like you to look at Stephen Oates&#8217;s book about Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. His biography of her is titled <em>A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War<\/em>, and parts of it are available <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/hKNWwL\">online at Google Books<\/a>. Please read 15-20 pages (of your choice) from Part Two, &#8220;The Field&#8221; (pp. 55-134). It describes Barton&#8217;s experiences at several battles in northern Virginia as a field nurse. The chapter has missing pages because it&#8217;s only a free preview, so you won&#8217;t get a complete story in any selected 15-20 pages, but read for the gist of what it was like for soldiers, nurses, and doctors in the heat of battle, and be ready to talk about some of Barton&#8217;s nursing strategies, her responses, and what we can learn about mid-19th century <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b4IRucojpJk\">nursing<\/a> from Oates&#8217;s account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Thanksgiving break, we will look at the history of nursing with a close examination of one era (the Civil War) and how it was critical in the development of nursing in America. For Monday, 11\/29 I&#8217;d like you to look at Stephen Oates&#8217;s book about Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class","tag-fall10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}