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Public Health Nursing

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Title: Public Health Nursing
Author: A.M. Mary Sewall Gardner, R.N.
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Published: 1924
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 2nd edition
Number of Pages: 432
Catalogs: Nursing History, Public Health
Description: Original dark blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Spine edges are somewhat worn, and corners are bumped. Bears the stamp of the Vermont Tuberculosis Association on flyleaf. Otherwise unmarked inside. Pages are tanned; page 395 is partly torn but still complete. 2nd edition, completely revised. This book is arranged in six parts, plus an appendix. These parts are: the development of public health nursing, including its history in the U.S. and abroad; public health nursing under private auspices; public health nursing under public auspices; the nursing group (organization and administration); special branches of public health nursing, including tuberculosis, child welfare, school nursing, mental hygiene, industrial nursing, and venereal disease; and records and statistics. The appendix offers a chronology of public health nursing, information on the NOPHN, the Red Cross Public Health Nursing Service, the National Health Council, and the conclusions of the Committee for the Study of Nursing Education. Mary Sewall Gardner (1871-1961) established the National Organization for Public Health Nursing, which merged with the National League for Nursing in 1952. For her accomplishments, she was inducted into the American Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 1986. From the nursing history collection of Sarah Abrams. Hardcover, good condition. 432 pages, octavo.