Sociology 2247A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Coronary Care Unit, Paraprofessional, Typhoid Fever
18 Jul 2018
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Chapter 12 nurses and midwives: the stresses and strains of the privatizing medical care system. Today nursing is a complex paraprofessional occupation run by rigidly hierarchical bureaucracies segregated (cid:862)a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:396)di(cid:374)g to se(cid:454), (cid:396)a(cid:272)e, po(cid:449)e(cid:396) a(cid:374)d pa(cid:455), spe(cid:272)ialit(cid:455) a(cid:374)d edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374)(cid:863) Division of labour: coronary care unit and icu involve highly skilled medical management and quick decision making in operating sophisticated machinery and other technologies, including multiple drug regiments. Military nursing: early 13th century, 17th century military nursing services in hospital, nurses assisted soliders in their rounds and visited the sick that doctors had seen to make sure they had medicine. After the protestant reformation of the 16th century, nursing disappeared as a respectable service for devout. Christian women in countries where the catholic church disappeared: hospitals were build and were for the poor and indigent, lacked sanitation, patients shared the same dirty sheets.
