Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Nurs Outlook. 2013 Sep-Oct;61(5):367-74. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2013.07.005.
The Catholic Church oversees the nation's largest group of not-for-profit health care facilities, and in certain areas a Catholic hospital is the only hospital available. Recently, Catholic hospitals' provision of health care services to women in the areas of reproductive procedures has come under scrutiny.
This article examines the role of Catholic sister nurses in health policy for women.
Using historical analysis, this article focuses on the tensions between Catholic religious priests and sister nurses over access to health care.
A historical examination of Catholic hospitals' influence on health policy offers a vehicle to contemplate the role that religion plays in the area of women's health.
Catholic sister nurses used the Catholic Church's organizational power to influence health policy that affected their hospitals. However, they exercised due restraint in their advocacy efforts, always having to be mindful of ecclesiastical barriers they could not abridge, particularly those that pertained to reproduction. This has significantly affected health policy for women.
天主教会监管着全国最大的非营利性医疗机构群体，在某些地区，天主教医院是唯一的医疗机构。最近，天主教医院在生殖程序领域为妇女提供医疗服务的情况受到了审查。
本文探讨了天主教修女护士在妇女健康政策中的作用。
本文采用历史分析方法，重点研究了天主教神职人员和修女护士在获得医疗保健方面的紧张关系。
对天主教医院对卫生政策影响的历史考察提供了一个思考宗教在妇女健康领域所扮演角色的途径。
天主教修女护士利用天主教会的组织力量影响了影响其医院的卫生政策。然而，他们在宣传工作中保持了适当的克制，始终牢记他们无法逾越的教会障碍，特别是与生殖有关的障碍。这对妇女健康政策产生了重大影响。
