Key Issues and Learning Outcomes - Chapter 4
Key issues in this chapter
- The origins of nursing
- Nursing and gender
- Socialization into nursing
- Nursing within the health division of labour
- Nurse education
By the end of this chapter you should be able to...
- understand the link between the history of nursing and its present construction
- discuss the effects of gender stereotypes on nursing
- identify the mechanisms by which nurses internalize the values of the occupation
- discuss nursing's place within the health division of labour
- understand the role played by education in the production of nurses
