How Trained Nurses Can Help with the Cancer Problem

Driving Forces That Transformed the Care of Individuals With Cancer From 1900-1940

“…In an effort to recruit nurses to the war on cancer, physicians frequently wrote for the American Journal of Nursing. Many of those publications focused on the potential role of the bedside nurse in the cancer control effort (Broun, 1925;Horsley, 1924;Lee, 1930;Levin, 1927;Ward, 1930;Woglom, 1930). Horsley (1924) instructed "nurses to inform themselves of the truths concerning cancer and to take advantage of all opportunities to help educate people and thus aid the control of this partially unnecessary cause of death" (p. 619).…”