Watchful Care: A History of America's Nurse Anesthetists (Audiobook)

Acknowledgments & Introduction: In Search of the Invisible Providers (Watchful Care: Vol. 1)

How do you tell the story of a profession that spent over a century working in the shadows of the operating room? In this introduction, Marianne Bankert sets out to recov

Chapter 1: The Mother of Anesthesia (Watchful Care: Vol. 1)

Before there was a profession, there was Alice Magaw. A nurse at the Mayo brothers' side who quietly became one of the most trusted anesthetists in the country, without a

Chapter 2: Up Against That Sort of Thing (Watchful Care: Vol. 1)

When surgeon George Crile needed someone to master a new, riskier form of anesthesia, he didn't turn to a physician — he chose a nurse, Agatha Hodgins. Together they took

Chapter 3: A Very Personal Property Right (Watchful Care: Vol. 1)

As nurse anesthesia proved itself in hospitals across the country, it also drew a target on its back. This chapter turns to the economics of a profession under threat and

Chapter 4: A Matter of Felicitation (Watchful Care: Vol. 1)

By 1931, nurse anesthetists across the country had proven themselves in operating rooms, on battlefields, and in courtrooms. What they lacked was a unified voice. This ch

Chapter 5: Worlds at War (Watchful Care: Vol. 1)

Nowhere did the tension between medicine and nursing come to a sharper head than in a Los Angeles courtroom, where nurse anesthetist Dagmar Nelson found herself on trial

Chapter 6: Everything Is Under Control (Watchful Care: Vol 1)

The war was over, but the fight for legitimacy wasn't. This chapter picks up in 1947 , as Florence McQuillen steps into the story that would define the next quarter-centu

Chapter 7: A Return to Roots (Watchful Care: Vol 1)

Goldie Branman's presidential address calls on members to get more involved as the organization enters a new, more political era. This chapter follows that shift: the fig

Appendices (Watchful Care: Vol 1)

A reference section rounding out the audiobook: reflections from every AANA president from the organization's 1931 founding through 1989, tributes to recipients of the Aw

Acknowledgments & Introduction: The History of Anesthesia & Nurse Anesthetists to 1989 (Watchful Care, Vol 2)

Before continuing the story, this introduction steps back to set the stage: a sweep through the history of pain management before 1846, the advent of modern surgical anes

Chapter 1: The Future Is Now (Watchful Care: Vol 2)

As nurse anesthesia stepped onto the world stage with the founding of IFNA, the profession also found itself tested on new fronts at home: the Gulf War, the HIV/AIDS cris

Chapter 2: A New Millenium of Watchful Care (Watchful Care: Vol 2)

The decade opens with a question of autonomy and legitimacy: when a 2001 federal rule let individual states opt out of mandatory physician supervision, it kicked off a st

Chapter 3: Looking Forward (Watchful Care: Vol 2)

This chapter marks the passing of two towering figures in the profession's history, Ira Gunn and John Garde, and covers the AANA Journal earning a notable honor and the r

Insights: Messages from Former AANA Presidents (Watchful Care: Vol 2)

Volume 2 closes as Volume 1 did, with reflections in their own words, this time from the presidents who led the AANA from 1989 through 2021. Expand your education and kn