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The C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis

Nursing, an Art and a Science

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Title: Nursing, an Art and a Science
Author: M.S. Margaret A. Tracy, R.N., A.B.
Publisher: The C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis
Published: 1948
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 2nd edition
Number of Pages: 754
Catalogs: Nursing History, Textbooks
Description: Richly illustrated with 183 photographs and drawings. Second edition. Original grey-green cloth binding with blue text on cover and spine. Some fraying to spine edges and corners. Ownership information of Mary Alice Baird on flyleaf. Some pencil notations throughout. 1942 edition, reprinted 1948. Foreword by Annie Warburton Goodrich, M.A., Sc.D., dean emeritus of the Yale School of Nursing. This book was written as an introductory textbook for students of nursing, which includes chapters on what nursing is, the patient's surroundings and care of the patient's environment, planning the nursing care of a patient, admission and discharge, fundamentals of care, special measures for patients with communicable diseases, observation of the patient, health teaching, physical examination, specimen collection, administration of fluids and medicines, pre- and post-operative care, dressings, and more. Margaret Tracy was the director of the University of California School of Nursing, San Francisco. From the nursing history collection of Sarah Abrams. Hardcover, good condition. 754 pages, octavo.