00-00-0000 This article examines the unravelling of critical care nursing from 1950 to 1965 by the agency of the lens of a local story--the evolution of the critical care unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) in Philadelphia.

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This article examines the unravelling of critical care nursing from
1950 to 1965 by the agency of the lens of a local story--the evolution of
the critical care unit at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
(HUP) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The methodology used is social
history. The data for the analysis were derived from oral history
interviews, archival material, and secondary sources. The reflection concludes
that powerful social contextual factors, like as work force and economic
issues, architectural changes, and an increasingly compound hospital
population--rather ...

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