Historical nursing journals

Format:

Book

Series:

Women's Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339,662 periodicals)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] [publisher not identified] 1891-1986

Summary:

The Royal College of Nursing's collection of historical nursing journals is a fantastic resource for researchers, family historians and students from a huge range of disciplines. The historical nursing journals contain a wide range of information about hospitals, wards, staff, patients, illness and diseases, medicine and treatments, hospital equipment and events. As well as articles, letters and obituaries, the journals contain many photographs relating to all aspects of nursing and a wide variety of advertisements. The advertisements provide a rich source for the history of patent medicines, childcare products, uniforms and social and medical history

Notes:

Date range: 1891-1986

Includes the following publications: Concerning assistant nurses; Letter to the editor; Progress of state registration and others

Reproduction of the originals from the Royal College of Nursing

Local Notes:

Images from the source libraries are selected contents of the original collection materials as representative of their value and pertinence to the digital product

OCLC:

1351523274

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license