Corrine Solomon Nursing Procedures Book

1944
The Country Doctor Museum Manuscript Collection, CD 01.102
Creator(s)
Watts Hospital School of Nursing
Physical description
0.06 Cubic Feet
Preferred Citation
Corrine Solomon Nursing Procedures Book (CD 01.102), The Country Doctor Museum, at The William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Repository
Laupus Library History Collections
Access
No restrictions

1944 edition of "Watts Procedure School of Nursing" manual used by Edith Corrine Solomon Logan. The nursing procedures were "collected and put in book form in order to make them available for the graduates and students at all times."


Biographical/historical information

Edith Corinne Solomon was born 1926 November 29 in Roxboro, North Carolina to Shaube Paul and Edith Virginia Solomon. She graduated from the Watts Hospital School of Nursing in Durham in 1947. In 1949, Solomon married James Preston Logan and they would have three children together: Laura (Edmundson), Ella (Patterson), and John. As of 2015, Edith was still living in Wilson, North Carolina.


Scope and arrangement

1944 edition of "Watts Procedure School of Nursing" manual used by Edith Corrine Solomon Logan. The nursing procedures were "collected and put in book form in order to make them available for the graduates and students at all times." The manual includes topics on the hospital and its departments, admission and discharge or patients, caring for patients, assisting with examinations and diagnostic tests, pre- and post-operative nursing care, among other topics. Each topic is discussed in detail, frequently including a definition, purpose, any precautions, equipment, procedure, and what information should be recorded.


Administrative information
Custodial History

1997 March 17: procedure book from School of Nursing at Watts Hospital. Gift of Edith Corrine Solomon Logan.

Source of acquisition

Gift of Edith Corrine Solomon Logan

Processing information

Processed by Marlena Barber and Lindsay Canting, 2016

Copyright notice

Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.


Language of material

English

Related material

Related artifacts held at The Country Doctor Museum, Bailey, North Carolina.

Related books can be found by searching the Laupus Library catalog.


Container list
Box 1 Folder 1 Procedures Book, 1944