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Nursing Resources: Nursing History

Resource guide for Nursing students and faculty

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Reference Books

Historical encyclopedia of nursing by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Call Number: R610.73092 S673h
ISBN: 1576070867
Publication Date: 1999
Women in world history : a biographical encyclopedia by Anne Commire
Call Number: R920.72 W872K 2000
ISBN: 078763736X
Publication Date: 1999
The timetables of history : a horizontal linkage of people and events by Bernard Grun
Call Number: R902 G888t 1991
ISBN: 067174271X
Publication Date: 1991

Finding Articles

American National Biography
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

Finding Books

Use the following subject searches to find books on nursing history and nursing theory in the Ryan Library collection:

Nursing history
Nurses history
Nurses social conditions
Nursing social aspects