Topics in Nursing: Nurses and History: Leading the Way To Health

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This course examines the lives of nursing pioneers who changed the nature of health care practice in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. The pressing social, legal, political, and educational issues that nurses addressed in their quest to provide access to care are examined. Women's suffrage, nursing licensure, public image of nursing, and control of practice are studied. Trips are taken to the Tenement Museum and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.