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

The official audiobook. Volumes I & II. Sponsored by the AANA Foundation. Produced by Beyond The Mask Podcast. Original authors: Marianne Bankert (Vol I) & Paul Warden (Vol II). Narrated by Walter Storholt. Edited by Grace Retek. Expand your education and knowledge about Nurse Anesthesia at https://beyondthemaskpodcast.com

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  Episode #1

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

  Aug 17, 202614 minS1

  <p>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 recover the overlooked history of America's nurse anesthetists. This kicks off Volume 1 of Watchful Care.</p><p><br /></p><p>Expand your education and knowledge about Nurse Anesthesia by interacting with the Beyond The Mask Podcast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Learn more about becoming a member of the AANA.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pick up the paperback versions of Watchful Care I and Watchful Care II on...

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  Episode #2

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

  Aug 16, 202658 minS1

  <p>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 single fatality across thousands of surgeries. This opening chapter traces the scientific breakthroughs of the late 1800s that made her work possible, the first women who stepped into the operating room to do it, and how the earliest forms of anesthesia evolved into the practice we'd recognize today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Expand your education and knowledge about Nurse Anesthesia by interacting with the ⁠Beyond The Mask Podcast⁠.</p><p...

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

  Aug 15, 202642 minS1

  <p>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 their techniques to the front lines of the First World War, treating soldiers in shock, proving nurse anesthesia could hold up under the worst conditions medicine had ever faced. But back home, that same skill was too often dismissed as simply "women's work." This chapter follows Hodgins' rise, her partnership with Crile, and the fight to be taken seriously in a profession that owed her so much.</p><p><br /></p>...

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

  Aug 14, 202625 minS1

  <p>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 to the man who would spend years trying to dismantle it, Dr. Francis McMechan. From his campaign to shut down the Lakeside School to the courtroom battle of Frank v. South, where a Kentucky court was asked to decide whether a nurse could legally save a life with an anesthetic, this is the story of a fight for the right to practice at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>...

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

  Aug 13, 202638 minS1

  <p>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 chapter introduces Adeline Curtis, whose fight for the right to practice helped fuel the drive toward organization, and follows the founding of the National Association of Nurse Anesthetists: the hard-won bylaws, the fragile early partnerships, and unexpected allies that would help shape the profession for decades to come. It closes with a look back at that very first national meeting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Expand your education and knowledge about Nurse Anesthesia by...

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