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Nurses and disasters : global, historical case studies / Arlene W. Keeling, Barbra Mann Wall, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Springer Publishing Company, LLC, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (xl, 291 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826126733
  • 0826126731
  • 1786840588
  • 9781786840585
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nurses and disasters.DDC classification:
  • 610.73/49 23
LOC classification:
  • RT108 .N87 2015eb
NLM classification:
  • WY 11.1
Online resources:
Contents:
Typhoid fever epidemic, 1885-1887, Tasmania, Australia / Madonna Grehan -- The 1908 Italian earthquake / Anna La Torre -- The 1913 flood in Ohio (USA) / Janna Dieckmann -- The Alaskan influenza epidemic, 1918-1919 / Maria Gilson DeValpine and Arlene W. Keeling -- The bombing blitz of London and Manchester, England, 1940-1944 / Jane Brooks -- The bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941 / Gwyneth Rhiannon Milbrath -- The nuclear catastrophe in Hiroshima, Japan, August 1945 / Ryoko Ohara, Madonna Grehan, Sioban Nelson, and Trudy Rudge -- The Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Bar Harbor, Maine (USA) / Barbara Maling -- The SARS pandemic in Toronto, Canada, 2003 / Sioban Nelson and Adrienne Byng -- Hurricane Sandy, October 2012, New York City (USA) / Barbra Mann Wall, Victoria LaMaina, and Emma MacAllister -- Conclusion / Arlene W. Keeling, Emma MacAllister, and Barbra Mann Wall.
Summary: "Describes and analyzes the nursing response to a variety of historic and recent global disasters that occurred between 1885 and 2012, including Hurricane Sandy. ... It examines how partnerships developed, their implications for policy, and how we can use lessons learned to improve care in the future"--Back cover.
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"Describes and analyzes the nursing response to a variety of historic and recent global disasters that occurred between 1885 and 2012, including Hurricane Sandy. ... It examines how partnerships developed, their implications for policy, and how we can use lessons learned to improve care in the future"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Typhoid fever epidemic, 1885-1887, Tasmania, Australia / Madonna Grehan -- The 1908 Italian earthquake / Anna La Torre -- The 1913 flood in Ohio (USA) / Janna Dieckmann -- The Alaskan influenza epidemic, 1918-1919 / Maria Gilson DeValpine and Arlene W. Keeling -- The bombing blitz of London and Manchester, England, 1940-1944 / Jane Brooks -- The bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941 / Gwyneth Rhiannon Milbrath -- The nuclear catastrophe in Hiroshima, Japan, August 1945 / Ryoko Ohara, Madonna Grehan, Sioban Nelson, and Trudy Rudge -- The Bar Harbor fire of 1947, Bar Harbor, Maine (USA) / Barbara Maling -- The SARS pandemic in Toronto, Canada, 2003 / Sioban Nelson and Adrienne Byng -- Hurricane Sandy, October 2012, New York City (USA) / Barbra Mann Wall, Victoria LaMaina, and Emma MacAllister -- Conclusion / Arlene W. Keeling, Emma MacAllister, and Barbra Mann Wall.

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