Caring for people who are sick or injured

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The challenge of AIDS for the community : 18-20th April 1990, St. David's Hall, Cardiff : a major international conference and exhibition : provisional programme / BMA, Royal College of Nursing.

[Leaflet about the international work of the British Red Cross Society].

Parvati enthroned nursing Ganesha. Watercolour drawing.

[Leaflet advertising the British Red Cross Society (Purley Branch)'s Medical Loan Depot hiring "all types of nursing equipment" from invalid chairs to bronchitis kettles].

M0007572: Manuscript illustration of patients being nursed in hospital, 13th Century

Sudan: fighting, medical and social activity. Wood engraving and process print by J.F.W. after M. Prior and W.S. Perry.

[5 fund raising stickers for the Austrian Red Cross featuring rehabilitation, nursing and transport of wounded soldiers].

A complete system of nursing / by A. Millicent Ashdown.

Comédie-Française, Paris: a corridor used as a hospital in the Franco-Prussian War showing nurses treating patients. Photograph by Fiorillo after A. Brouillet, 1870.

Florence Nightingale receiving wounded soldiers at Scutari Hospital. Colour lithograph after J. Barrett.

[Leaflet outlining what the British Red Cross Society does, giving their peacetime aims (after WW2)].

Alfred Hospital Training School for Nurses, Melbourne... : this is to certify that... has served a three years term of training as  a pupil nurse in the wards of this hospital (including the nursing of sick children and gynaecological patients) also in the operation theatre and out-patients and casualty departments... qualifying her to act as a skilled medical & surgical nurse.

The role of the diabetes specialist nurse : a working party report / Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom Diabetes Nursing Forum Working Party.

Nurses caring for patients in Morocco: celebrating International Nursing Day on 12 May 2002 . Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, 2002.

Nursing care of patients having chest surgery / Katherine J. Bordicks.

Waller, Wathen Ernest, and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy

Elementary textbook of anatomy and physiology applied to nursing / by Janet T.E. Riddle; illustrated by Kathleen B. Nicoll.

Critical care 91 : second international conference and exhibition organised by British Journal of Hospital Medicine in association with Nursing : new perspectives in intensive care : The Barbican Centre, London September 9-13 1991.

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Nursing

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Critical care 91 : second international conference and exhibition organised by British Journal of Hospital Medicine in association with Nursing : new perspectives in intensive care : The Barbican Centre, London September 9-13 1991.

Nursing

Images from the collections

Images referencing Nursing

Works from the collections

Critical care 91 : second international conference and exhibition organised by British Journal of Hospital Medicine in association with Nursing : new perspectives in intensive care : The Barbican Centre, London September 9-13 1991.

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