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Nightingale: Lady and Legend

May 12, 2020 Circulating Now

By Stephen J. Greenberg ~ Some people seem not quite real.  Not in the sense that they are imaginary, fictional beings; they existed, and they

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A Universal Code: Nurse Uniforms of All Nations

May 12, 2016 Circulating Now

By Anne Marie Rafferty ~ This essay on the International Nurse Uniform Photograph Collection, ca. 1950 was originally published in Hidden Treasure: The National Library

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Nurses—The Heart of Healing

May 6, 2014 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth  Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a

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