title: 25 years: a slightly irreverent retrospective.
abstract: From 1970 when room rates soared to 50 dollars a day, to the reorganization occasioned by DRGs, and restructuring for healthcare reform in the 1990s; from the gleaming white supervisory nurse of yesteryear, through nursing's image crisis, to the vice presidents and case managers of today; from the rise of critical care units to the development of ethics committees, Nursing Management's editor chronicles and comments on the major (and sometimes minor) events of the last 25 years of nursing.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Curtin
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000639:trends; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000266:history*; D009729:Nursing / Q000639:trends; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States