The Occupational Status of Nurses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5620903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Devereux, Florence R Weiner |
| Year | 1950 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 628 |
| Publication date | 1950-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2086916 |
| OpenAlex | W2334991626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
T HE PRESENT essay is a contribution to the relatively new, and increasingly important, field of the sociology of occupations. It seeks to analyze the occupational role of the nurse, with special reference to the psychological implications and professional consequences of the definition of the nurse's role in our society. In principle, the period of nursing history to which our analysis pertains ranges from the establishment of Florence Nightingale's training school in i86o to the present. We are aware of the fact that a new period in nursing history, marked by the increasingly greater role played in nursing education by collegiate schools of nursing, is said to have come into being in the 1930's. We feel, however, that the contemporary period is more advantageously viewed as the declining phase of the earlier epoch, rather than as the genuine dawn of a new era, because of the survival of many of the ideologies of the i860-I930 period of nursing. Thus, for the same reasons which induced J. Huizinga' to view the XV Century in Burgundy as the decline of the middle ages, rather than as the onset of modern times, and caused H. Pirenne2 to affirm that the ethos of Rome was not entirely replaced by the mediaeval ethos until Charlemagne's time, we feel that the contemporary period in nursing history
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| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1957 - 1986 (30) |
| Highly cited | No |