📚 Nurses and Nursing

Books with nurses and nursing on their catalogue record, first published between 1859 and 2009, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject nurses and nursing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 1,053 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Notes on nursing	Florence Nightingale	1859	54
	History of nursing	Mary Adelaide Nutting	1907	52
	Public health nursing	Mary Sewall Gardner	1916	18
	Medicine for nurses	M. Toohey	1955	15
	Textbook of the principles and practice of nursing	Bertha Harmer	1922	12
	Practical nursing	Anna Caroline Maxwell	1907	11
	Studies in ethics for nurses	Charlotte A. Aikens	1916	11
	A general history of nursing	Lucy Ridgely Seymer	1932	10
	A review of nursing	Helen Fredericka Hansen	1934	10
	Comprehensive review of nursing	C.V. Mosby Company.	1949	9
	Nursing ethics	Isabel Hampton Robb	1900	8
	Bacteriology in a nutshell	Mary Elizabeth Reid	1904	8
	A general textbook of nursing	Evelyn Clare Pearce	1938	8
	Medical-surgical nursing	Kathleen Newton Shafer	1958	8
	Nursing: its principles and practice	Isabel Hampton Robb	1893	7
	A reference hand-book for nurses	Amanda Kathryn Beck	1905	7
	The home nurse's handbook of practical nursing	Aikens, Charlotte A. (Charlotte Albina), 1868-	1912	7
	Nursing care of communicable diseases	Mary Elizabeth Pillsbury	1929	7
	Medical nursing	Edgar Hull	1940	7
	Basic medical-surgical nursing	Mildred A. Mason	1959	7
	Community Nursing Practice	Winsome St. John	2006	7
	A nurse's handbook of obstetrics	Joseph Brown Cooke	1905	6
	Simplified nursing	Florence Dakin	1925	6
	A textbook of chemistry	Stella Goostray	1931	6
	A manual of simple nursing procedures	Mary J. Leake	1951	6
	Practical nursing calculations	Valda Hext	2003	6
	Foundations of clinical nurse specialist practice	Janet S. Fulton	2009	6
	Nursing in the acute infectious fevers	George Philip Paul	1911	5
	Hygiene and sanitation	George Moses Price	1915	5
	Communicable diseases for nurses	Albert G. Bower	1932	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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