Nursing

Isabel Stewart in 20s: nurses were abandoning “health nursing” in favor more “dramatic” sick nursing in hospitals (Sandelowski, 105). In hospitals, transfer of bedside nursing to new category of technical nurses or nurse technicians, with the resulting paradox: “this technical nurse was not to perform the procedures that were crowding out traditional bedside nursing but, instead, bedside nursing itself. . . . the technical nurse now performed true nursing functions (or bedside care), while the professional nurse performed technical functions (or the execution of complex medical tasks and administration). True nursing did not necessary require a true nurse” (106).