Physical description

Book with blue binding. Front cover has publisher's name and logo printed at base [white ink] Title [black and blue ink] and author [orange ink] are printed on a pale orange square with a thick black line above and below.Title, author's surname and publisher's logo printed on spine [white ink]

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Top right of front endpage'Margaret Skan/1991' [blue ink] At the base of this page is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, 'This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by' Margaret Skan & the previous catalogue number [black ink]

Summary

Behind the screens is a book about nursing. It sheds light on the fundamental aspects of basic nursing that have previously been hidden, or taken for granted. The essence of these practices has not been regarded as formal knowledge, partly because there has been no formal language to describe them. Experienced and beginning practitioners will identify with many aspects of this discussion