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In her second historical novel, Frances Ward turns to a new subject: the nineteenth-century origin of a School of Nursing at Harvard. What, she wonders, would have happened at a critical moment in American history if healthcare had been envisioned as something other than disease management? And what would have happened had nursing led the way to a new future in which health maintenance and disease prevention were at the center of the nation's fastest growing industry? Emerging from the ashes of Civil War, the United States was fast immersing into a gilded age, with hospitals a shining symbol of science. Fueling what many called the hospitalization of America was a silent infrastructure training schools of nursing, owned by hospitals. Pupil nurses had become a caste unto themselves, working long hours, caring for patients, and undertaking domestic tasks within hospitals. Their education was inconsistent, always secondary to patient care. For Charles W. Eliot, this situation simply would not do. As Harvard's 21st president, he was determined to modernize higher education through diverse curricula, including the finest education for physicians, nurses, and dentists. To achieve having them all at their best, he turned to Alfred Worcester, an alumnus of Harvard's Medical School, to establish a School of Nursing as the new century began. And Worcester turned to someone so unlikely that she seems herself invented: Annette Fiske, a Radcliffe College graduate of Latin and Greek languages. Brilliant, resolute, efficient, and determined, Annette galvanizes a dedicated team politically guided by Eliot that forges their goal forward, dismissive of biased nurse leaders' acrimonious vitriol and capitalizing on themes of national women's organizations. Becoming a nurse herself, Annette recognizes that education is the foundation of knowledge-based nursing practice-and that knowledge can be provided in any setting, whether in hospitals, communities, homes, or industry. As Annette becomes the founding dean of the Harvard School of Nursing, we witness the origin of what might have been universal care for all citizens. Ward shows us a future that might have resulted in an American health care system that might have become the envy of the world. And, if we listen carefully to the lessons of history, might yet be.

As her father describes her, Emily Hart is, by turns, fiercely independent, curious, adventuresome, aloof, delicate-and, running through it all, deeply intelligent, often ruthlessly so. When Germany invades Poland in 1939, she realizes that match had finally been struck and war would soon begin. A patriot, she joins the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women's branch of the British Army, and becomes a mechanical transport driver. From her war experiences in the Orkney Islands transporting burned children to her post-war experiences in Berlin with Nazi Werewolves, Emily finds that she can do more than she had ever imagined. But what good is imagination if the world can see her only as a future wife and mother? "Emily in War is the story of a young ATS girl who finds herself posted to remote Orkney where she experiences both the boredom and action of war but also the remote beauty of this far northern Isle. This moving story firmly brings to mind the realities of wartime Orkney during these tumultuous years. Years which would change Orkney, its people, and the world forever." Dr Craig R. Armstrong, author of Orkney at War, 1939-1945 as well as several other books in both the First and Second World Wars. In her first novel, Frances Ward finds in Emily a witness to a world aflame. Frances Ward is Professor Emerita of Nursing at Temple University. She is author of On Duty: Power, Politics, and the History of Nursing in New Jersey and The Door of Last Resort: Memoirs of a Nurse Practitioner.

Christians often find it difficult to talk or preach or engage with the possibility of climate catastrophe and an uninhabitable earth, for the questions are enormous. Faith in God needs to engage with the reality of the tragic loss of creation through anthropogenic impact.If we're living in the end times, then how should we live? Wracked with grief, anxiety and guilt, with foreboding deep as death? How is it possible to live hopefully, even as we face realistically the inevitability of the radical impact of an unpredictable climate, rising sea levels, the collapse of biodiversity? How do we remain faithful to God and loving to our neighbour, particularly if our neighbours are exiles and immigrants because their homes are no longer inhabitable? What do we tell our children and grandchildren, so they don't grow up completely overwhelmed by anxiety, such that mental illness levels continue to soar?Frances Wardattempts to think through some of these questions; to continue to have faith, hope, and love in response to God. It is a Christian response to eco-anxiety, a theological and contemplative reflection to sustain a fierce hope that hopes against hope. It is a deep lament that provokes a fierce hope to enable humanity to live life to the full, like there's no tomorrow.

This book offers a lens grounded in traditional Christian values. In a world focused on individualism, Frances Ward looks at the value of acting based on virtues like truthfulness, and for their own good, to find happiness as a result of becoming full of character.

Learning provides an accessible and thorough resource for all those involved in theological education, ministerial formation and ministerial supervision. It explores the nature of ministry and tbrmation for 21st Century church and public life. It argues for the importance of supervision in the learning contexts of placement. parish and pastorate and presents an exciting model of supervision as reflective practice that draws on existing literature from different disciplines, including other helping professions, literature and practical theology and the methods and insights of Clinical Pastoral Education. Chapters cover stimulating and useful areas tbr consideration by the theological educator and ministerial student. such as doing theological reflection in context; resistance to learning; coping with loss and thilure; dynamics of power in ministry and issues of transculturalism, gender and sexuality in ministry. It also offers was in which the effectiveness of placement learning can be evaluated. Frances Ward is a priest in the Diocese of Manchester and is also co-author of Studying Local Churchcs:.4 Handbook, and co-author of Theological Rqlectioir Methods, both SCM Press.

This memoir describes the education of nurse practitioners, their scope of practice, their abilities to prescribe medications and diagnostic tests, and their overall management of patients’ acute and chronic illnesses. In doing so, it explores the issues in primary health care delivery to poor, urban populations and investigates the factors affecting health care delivery in the United States that have remained obscure throughout the current national debate.