Physical description

Book has a dark blue cover. Author's name embossed in silver at top of front cover, under this are two narrow parallel lines and the book title embossed in gold. The author's surname at the top and publishers name at the base, are embossed in silver on the spine. Also on the spine, under author's surname, are two narrow parallel lines and the book title embossed in gold

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At bottom right of the front end-page is a coloured donation sticker: AHNL badge (red and blue print) "This book was donated to AHNL Inc-Nursing Archives by"(printed in blue ink) Lyndal Gale (Lebcher) Grad 1965 (handwritten in black ink) At top right of the front end-page the previous catalogue number is written in black ink

Summary

The book consists of three parts: the development of modern nursing, contemporary professional nursing and professional components and career development in the U.S.A. it also includes an appendix listing some of the distinguished American nurses of the past