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Title: Fundamentals of Nursing: The Humanities and the Sciences in Nursing
Author: M.A. Elinor V. Fuerst, R.N., M.A., Lu Verne Wolff, R.N.
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and Montreal
Published: 1956
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 592
Catalogs: Nursing History, History of Medicine
: Illustrated with drawings, diagrams, and photographs throughout. Original maroon cloth binding with silver text on spine. Spine ends are lightly crushed, and bottom corners very slightly frayed. This was a presentation copy from Lippincott to an instructor, and contains its bookplate on the flyleaf. Pages are clean and unmarked, and binding is firm. First edition, second printing of this long-lived textbook on nursing fundamentals, which include nursing responsibilities, principles guiding practice, practices of asepsis, preparation of the environment for care, admission to the hospital, teaching, hygiene, meeting the physical-, emotional-, and spiritual needs of patients, the administration of drugs, therapeutic and diagnostic measures, care of wounds and dressings, instillations and irrigations, controlling the spread of communicable diseases, care of the terminally ill patient, and more. From the nursing history collection of Sarah Abrams. Hardcover, very good condition. 592 pages, octavo.
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