Geriatric service at the Karolinska Hospital, Sweden]
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Contributor(s):
- Mohr, Jean, photographer
- Language(s):
- English French
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- Clothing Nurses World Health Organization
- Abstract:
- Head and shoulders of two nurses standing in profile; a hand and forearm of a patient are visible grasping a device (mostly hidden by the nurse on the right) to exercise and strengthen the arms. Verso: WHO/10104. Sweden-Nursing. Hospital Nurses. According to the latest figures, there are 2,500,000 qualified nurses in the world today. A special issue of World Health shows nurses north, south, east and west working in different branches of the profession. Nurses from the staff of one of the most modern hospitals in the world, Karolinska in Stockholm, were interviewed by World Health. The nurse is more and more becoming the doctor's co-worker and her responsibilities are many and various. Brigitta Jernberg (left) is specialized in caring for old people. She studied nursing for four years. After working for a while in a urological clinic she was transferred to the geriatric service of the Karolinska.
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- WHO must be mentioned in the accompanying text and/or given credit. This item may be under copyright protection. Please ask copyright owner for permission before publishing.
- Copyright Holder:
- World Health Organization; Source: Record; Research date: 20151001
- Extent:
- 1 photoprint.
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101437103 (See catalog record)
- NLM Image ID:
- A013706
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101437103