Journal article
What's Your Hunch About Improving Health Care?
Holistic nursing practice, v 28(4), pp 227-228
Jul 2014
PMID: 24919090
Abstract
Here, Donnelly discusses improving health care. Nurse pioneers, including Florence Nightingale, Lilian Wald, and Margaret Sanger, and their hunches are but a few among the hundreds of nurses who had startling impact on health care, education, and the nursing profession. They were daydreamers--They had hunches about what could be and how it could happen. Their ideas went against the grain and were ahead of the times. Imagine that Nightingale's hunch about cleanliness and hygiene predated the confirmation that germs really existed. Wald took care into peoples' homes, and Sanger followed and improved the health of oppressed women who lived in poverty. These nurses filtered the criticism of their work and ideas, and used criticism to improve but discarded unsubstantiated negativity.
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- Title
- What's Your Hunch About Improving Health Care?
- Creators
- Gloria Donnelly
- Publication Details
- Holistic nursing practice, v 28(4), pp 227-228
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ovid Technologies
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Nursing and Health Professions
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000338446200001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84902520338
- Other Identifier
- 991021855261504721
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- Integrative & Complementary Medicine
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