South African Nursing Record

This text gives an account of the course charted by black nurses in South Africa as they rose to the challenge of a foreign, Western system of nurse education and training. It records the professional and academic advances made by an indigenous people in this field within a relatively short time.

A critical account of the history of nursing in South Africa. The book explores the establishment of nursing as a profession for white English-speaking ladies at the end of the 19th century and the class and racial tensions that developed as Afrikaner and black women were drawn into its ranks.

This collection of essays reflects the current interdisciplinary and international nature of the history of nursing scholarship. Covering a range from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, this book draws on research from eleven different countries to address: the issues of professionalism within nursing the social and ethical issues which are woven into the relationship between the nurse/midwife and her patient/client the trans-cultural dimensions nurses create when they move from one culture to another and the recent developments in historiography.

This book is about seven African nurse pioneers in KwaZulu/Natal from 1920 to 2000. The author captures the early nursing activities of the 1920s to 1970 and then moves to nurses that entered the health services in the 1950s. The author also presents two nurses that worked outside South Africa i.e. did their pioneering nursing in Saudi Arabia and the United States of America. The author does not scoop nursing out of its context but creates a narrative that resonates in lived experiences in a world dominated by the Africanization of poverty, the feminization of poverty, globalization, racism and xenophobia.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete text of the printed volume.

The essentials of mental health nursing are presented in this fourth edition of a landmark nursing textbook on psychiatric nursing in South African primary health care and community health care settings.