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Wide Neighborhoods: A Story of the Frontier Nursing Service by Mary Breckinridge, The University Press of Kentucky, 1981, 371 pages, $19.50 (cloth), $8.00 (paper).
Expanded nursing roles, as concepts in family health care, have no better model of origin, than the Frontier Nursing Service founded in 1925 by Mary Breckinridge in Kentucky,
This new edition of her 1952 autobiography, honors the centennial of the author's birth, and should rekindle hope in spirits, worn thin by preoccupation with professional, philosophical, and political struggles current in nursing.
Nurses, tired of issues relative todefining the art, defending the practitioner, escaping burnout, and ope rationalizing theoretical models, can gather fresh fuel...