A history of apprenticeship nurse training in Ireland / Gerard M. Fealy.

London : Routledge, 2006.

xiii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Charity, medical relief and precursors of the modern nurse -- Nursing arrangements : nursing policy in Dublin in the late nineteenth century -- Hospitals in transition : two case studies of nursing reform -- Exemplary conduct and character : the lady nurses of the Dublin hospitals -- Professional regulation and the General Nursing Council for Ireland -- Knowledge of her work : the curriculum, c. 1899-1949 -- The Nursing Board and the training experience, 1950-1979 -- From the hospital to the academy, 1980-1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-193) and index.