Part of the community: district nursing through the ages
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Part of the community: district nursing through the ages

Erin Dean Freelance health writer

To mark 150 years of community nursing, the Queen’s Nursing Institute has produced an awe-inspiring collection of accounts, rare footage and old photographs from the people who were there

On flickering black-and-white film, district nurses are seen weighing babies, arriving at country cottages surrounded by cows and demonstrating how to wash a baby in front of a fire.

Primary Health Care. 28, 4, 22-25. doi: 10.7748/phc.28.4.22.s22

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