St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne Archives
Book, Modern Practical Nursing Procedures, sixth edition by Doherty, Sirl and Ring in 1954
... Modern Practical Nursing Procedures, sixth edition by Doherty, Sirl and Ring in 1954. ...Doherty Sirl and Ring...Red hardcover textbook of 616 pages Modern Practical Nursing Procedures, sixth edition by Doherty, Sirl and Ring in 1954. Book ...
One of the reference books used by Nurse Anne Carolan during her nurse training at St Vincents Hospital Melbourne in 1957. There are extensive notes, some handwritten during lectures, for example on voluntary micturition there is an eleven- step procedure on how to encourage the patient to pass urine. This indicates the detailed learning nurses undertook whilst working at the same time in the wards.Hand -written in ink and underlined inside the front cover is A Carolan's name. There are study notes written in pencil alongside the text on some pages. doherty sirl and ring, st vincent's hospital melbourne, nurse training, anne carolan, nursing procedures