Nursing -- History

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• A History of Nursing (4 volumes, 2 from original edition, 2 from later continuation; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1907-1912), by M. Adelaide Nutting and Lavinia L. Dock
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• White Caps: The Story of Nursing (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1946), by Victor Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jean I. Gunn: Nursing Leader (Markham, ON: Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry and Whiteside, c1997), by Natalie Riegler (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• The Army Nurse Corps: A Commemoration of World War II Service, by Judith A. Bellafaire (illustrated HTML at US Army CMH)

• Our Army Nurses: Interesting Sketches, Addresses, and Photographs of Nearly One Hundred of the Noble Women Who Served in Hospitals and on Battlefields During Our Civil War (Boston: B. Wilkins and Co., 1895), ed. by Mary Gardner Holland (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses: A Selection From Miss Nightingale's Addresses to Probationers and Nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital (London: Macmillan, 1914), by Florence Nightingale, ed. by Rosalind Nightingale Nash (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (London: Harrison, 1860), by Florence Nightingale (DjVu at archive.org)
• Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (first American edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860), by Florence Nightingale (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1898), by Florence Nightingale (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Nursing, Health, & the Environment: Strengthening the Relationship to Improve the Public's Health, ed. by Andrew M. Pope, Meta A. Snyder, and Lillian H. Mood (page images at NAP)
• Nursing: Its Principles and Practice; For Hospital and Private Use (1893), by Isabel Adams Hampton Robb (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nursing the Sick: Practical Information By a Trained Nurse; Directions for Amateur Nursing At Home (Montreal: Davis & Lawrence, 1897) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Canadian Nurse (partial serial archives)

• Provisional Constitution: The Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada, Founded in Commemoration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, by Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and War (London: Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1858), by Florence Nightingale (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ruth Fielding in the Red Cross: or, Doing Her Best for Uncle Sam (New York: Cupples and Leon, c1918), by Alice B. Emerson
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• American Journal of Nursing (partial serial archives)
• BMC Nursing (full serial archives)
• The British Journal of Nursing, Incorporating the Nursing Record (full serial archives)
• Canadian Nurse (partial serial archives)

• BMC Nursing (full serial archives)

• The Costs and Effectiveness of Nurse Practitioners (1981), by Lauren LeRoy and Sharon Solkowitz (PDF files at Princeton)

• Making Good on Private Duty: Practical Hints to Graduate Nurses, by Harriet Camp Lounsbery (Gutenberg text)

• The Program for Research in Military Nursing: Progress and Future Direction, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses (2008), ed. by Ronda Hughes (illustrated HTML at NIH)

• What Is the Use of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada? (Ottawa: Mortimer, 1900), by Countess of Aberdeen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• How to Become a Trained Nurse: A Manual of Information in Detail, With a Complete List of the Various Training Schools for Nurses in the United States and Canada (New York: W. Abbatt, 1898), by Jane Hodson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Principles of Chemistry: An Introductory Textbook of Inorganic, Organic and Physiological Chemistry for Nurses and Students of Home Economics and Applied Chemistry, With Laboratory Experiments (second edition; St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1929), by Joseph Hyram Roe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nursing and Nursing Education: Public Policies and Private Actions, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images at NAP)

• Nursing and Nursing Education: Public Policies and Private Actions, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images at NAP)

• Nurses and Human Rights (1997), by Amnesty International (HTML and PDF at amnesty.org)

• Best at Home: Assuring Quality Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings, ed. by Jill C. Feasley (page images at NAP)
• Family Hospice Care: Pre-Planning and Care Guide (electronic edition, 2002), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)
• Nursing the Sick: Practical Information By a Trained Nurse; Directions for Amateur Nursing At Home (Montreal: Davis & Lawrence, 1897) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (London: Harrison, 1860), by Florence Nightingale (DjVu at archive.org)
• Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (first American edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1860), by Florence Nightingale (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1898), by Florence Nightingale (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Nursing, Health, & the Environment: Strengthening the Relationship to Improve the Public's Health, ed. by Andrew M. Pope, Meta A. Snyder, and Lillian H. Mood (page images at NAP)

• Critical Care Nursing of Infants and Children (second edition, 2001), by Martha A. Q. Curley and Pat Moloney-Harmon (PDF files here at Penn)

• Jean I. Gunn: Nursing Leader (Markham, ON: Associated Medical Services and Fitzhenry and Whiteside, c1997), by Natalie Riegler (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• A Book for Midwives (revised edition, ca. 2005), by Susan Klein, Suellen Miller, and Fiona Thomson (PDF files at hesperian.org)

• Critical Care Nursing of Infants and Children (second edition, 2001), by Martha A. Q. Curley and Pat Moloney-Harmon (PDF files here at Penn)

• Le Baiser au Lépreux (in French; Paris: B. Grasset, c1922), by François Mauriac (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Evolution of Modern Medicine, by William Osler
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Medical History (partial serial archives)

• Makers of Modern Medicine (New York: Fordham University Press, 1907), by James J. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Labor Among Primitive Peoples, by George J. Engelmann (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Autobiography of Andrew T. Still, With a History of the Discovery and Development of the Science of Osteopathy (1897), by A. T. Still (HTML at Early American Manual Therapy)
• History of Osteopathy, and Twentieth-Century Medical Practice (1906), by Emmons Rutledge Booth (HTML at Early American Manual Therapy)

• Pediatrics of the Past: An Anthology (New York: P. B. Hoeber, 1925), ed. by John Ruhräh, contrib. by Fielding H. Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pharmacy's Part in Society (Madison, WI: American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1946), by George Urdang (PDF at Ohio State)

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