Strong Hearts And Healing Hands

In 1924, the United States began a bold program in public health. The Indian Service of the United States hired its first nurses to work among Indians living on reservations. This corps of white women were dedicated to improving Indian health. In 1928, the first field nurses arrived in the Mission Indian Agency of Southern California. These nurses visited homes and schools, providing public health and sanitation information regarding disease causation and prevention. Over time, field nurses and Native people formed a positive working relationship that resulted in the decline of mortality from infectious diseases. Many Native Americans accepted and used Western medicine to fight pathogens, while also continuing Indigenous medicine ways. Nurses helped control tuberculosis, measles, influenza, pneumonia, and a host of gastrointestinal sicknesses. In partnership with the community, nurses quarantined people with contagious diseases, tested for infections, and tracked patients and contacts. Indians turned to nurses and learned about disease prevention. With strong hearts, Indians eagerly participated in the tuberculosis campaign of 1939–40 to x-ray tribal members living on twenty-nine reservations. Through their cooperative efforts, Indians and health-care providers decreased deaths, cases, and misery among the tribes of Southern California.

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history. Regular sections include scholarly articles as well as reviews of the latest media and publications on nursing and healthcare history. Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find Nursing History Review an important resource. The 30th volume of the review features a new section, "Hidden in Plain Sight," dedicated to highlighting nurses from underrepresented groups, as well as a special "Past as Prologue" section that focuses on the 1918 influenza pandemic and COVID-19. Included in Volume 30: "We are capable of handling the current crisis, even if it is just shift by shift": Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic Face Mask Follies: How a Simple Protective Covering Symbolized the State of Nursing and American Society in 1918–19 and 2020 Imperial Sisters: Patriotism and Humanitarianism in the Letters of British, Australian, and New Zealand Professional Nurses, 1914–1918 Home Nursing, Gender, and Confederate Nationalism in the American Civil War (1861–1865) Red, White, and Black: The Debate Over the Active Service of Black Nurses in the United States During the First World War An Analysis of Nigerian Igbo Petitions to U.S. Missionary Nurses, 1965

This book offers twenty original scholarly chapters featuring historical and biographical analyses of Native American women. The lives of women found her contributed significantly to their people and people everywhere. The book presents Native women of action and accomplishments in many areas of life. This work highlights women during the modern era of American history, countering past stereotypes of Native women. With the exceptions of Pocahontas and Sacajawea, historians have had little to say about American Indian women who have played key roles in the history of their tribes, their relationship with others, and the history of the United States. Indigenous women featured herein distinguished themselves as fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, potters, basket makers, musicians, and dancers. Other women contributed as notable educators and women working in health and medicine. They are representative of many women within the Native Universe who excelled in their lives to enrich the American experience.

Part 1: Healing Hands This book is the inspiring story of God using Dr. Eleanore Kue to accomplish His purpose. Dr. Kue was born in Cameroon, Central Africa, at a time when babies were dying for lack of appropriate medical care. God used an American missionary to save her life. She studied medicine in France before moving to the USA with her husband, Simon Kue. Dr. Eleanore Kue

Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In 1576, Indigenous Mexican communities suffered a catastrophic epidemic that took almost two million lives and simultaneously left the colonial church in ruins. In the crisis and its immediate aftermath, Spanish missionaries and surviving pueblos de indios held radically different visions for the future of Christianity in the Americas. The Church of the Dead offers a counter-history of American Christian origins. It centers the power of Indigenous Mexicans, showing how their Catholic faith remained intact even in the face of the faltering religious fervor of Spanish missionaries. While the Europeans grappled with their failure to stem the tide of death, succumbing to despair, Indigenous survivors worked to reconstruct the church. They reasserted ancestral territories as sovereign, with Indigenous Catholic states rivaling the jurisdiction of the diocese and the power of friars and bishops. Christianity in the Americas today is thus not the creation of missionaries, but rather of Indigenous Catholic survivors of the colonial mortandad, the founding condition of American Christianity. Weaving together archival study, visual culture, church history, theology, and the history of medicine, Jennifer Scheper Hughes provides us with a fascinating reexamination of North American religious history that is at once groundbreaking and lyrical.

"Called to Care" is an extraordinary anthology that pays tribute to the remarkable healthcare professionals who have dedicated their lives to caring for others. Through a collection of captivating stories, this book offers a heartfelt exploration of the courage, compassion, and resilience that have shaped the healthcare landscape in the Bahamas over the past five decades.Within these pages, you will meet nine extraordinary individuals who share their personal journeys, triumphs, and challenges as they navigated the noble profession of healthcare. From nurses to midwives, educators to caregivers, their stories shed light on the transformative power of human connection and the profound impact of dedicated healthcare professionals.Through the lens of these diverse voices, you will witness the remarkable moments of healing, the deep bonds formed with patients, and the unwavering commitment to making a difference. Each narrative unveils the strength, determination, and unyielding spirit of these individuals who have answered their calling to care for others."Called to Care" is a testament to the resilience and dedication of healthcare professionals in the Bahamas. It honors their invaluable contributions, celebrates their extraordinary achievements, and showcases the lasting impact they have made on the lives of countless individuals and communities.This anthology invites readers to embrace the power of compassion, to recognize the immense value of human connection, and to answer their own unique call to care. It is a reminder that within every act of kindness lies the potential to transform lives and inspire generations to come.Join us on this transformative journey as we honor the past, celebrate the present, and envision a future where the call to care continues to shape and uplift the healthcare landscape in the Bahamas.

The only book of its kind that demonstrates the power of storytelling to heal.

Healing Hands is a part of my life story how I was able to overcome the challenges that I've faced as child and up into adulthood. Growth is a natural process of life but if the foundation is not set right, your growth can be impaired. Parental separation; family disintegration; verbal, mental, and physical abuse; sexual molestation; abandonment; hunger; false accusations; feeling rejected; low self-esteem; depression; marital problems; betrayal; anger; bitterness; and resentment, but yet, desperation for change drove me into the arms of God's loving embrace where I found a sense of meaning, purpose for living, healing, and the ability to forgive by exchanging my will for God's will for my life. Our gifts, talents, and abilities do not always come wrapped in pretty packages but sometimes hidden and then revealed through the seemingly harsh experiences of life. Like Joseph in the Bible, you may suffer at the hands of your own family members and experience some very dark times of your life or by the heavy hands of cruel taskmasters who would want to whip you into subjection or by a Potiphar's wife who would try to rip your robe of righteousness off of you because of their own ignorance of who they are, who and whose you are, and of the will and plans of God for your life. But they can only give to you what they possess and that is their pain. It is written in Romans 8:20 (KJV), "And we know, that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose." There is purpose in your pain. There is testimony and message in your test and mess. There is a crown for your cross and there is compassion for the poor and sick soul. My prayer is that you will experience a sense of peace and healing as you read Healing Hands.