Westmead Hospital : activities and conditions in the Burns Unit, the Accident & Emergency Unit and the Intensive Care Unit, 1988 / photographed by Peter Short

PXD 726

fonds

1988

Graphic Materials, Photographs

151945

Photographs - 10 silver gelatin photoprints - 50.5 x 40.5 cm.

1-2. Burns Unit (Nurses bathing a patient ; Dressings being changed)
3. Accident & Emergency Unit, The Receiving Room (Staff work on a patient who has taken an overdose of heroin)
4. Accident and Emergency, Receiving Room (Student nurses wrapping the body of a man, he was dead on arrival)
5. Burns Unit (Registered nurse dressing a leg wound)
6. Accident and Emergency Unit (3 nurses and 2 resident doctors attending a patient)
7. Accident and Emergency Unit (Medical registrar and Nursing Unit Manager)
8. Accident and Emergency Unit (Medical registrar and 2 registered nurses)
9. Ward B5B (Doctors and nurse)
10. Intensive Care Unit (Nurse with stethoscope listening to patient's lung and heart sounds)
Detailed descriptions compiled by the photographer available with collection

Selected from a series of photographs about nursing from a project conceived by Peter Short (at the time a clinical nurse specialist at Westmead Hospital) during his final year of a Post-Graduate Diploma in Arts (Photography) at the City Art Institute. Selected images have been exhibited at Westmead Hospital, Nepean College of Advanced Education and the University of Sydney
Selected images reproduced in: The body in nursing / editor Jocalyn Lawler. South Melbourne, Vic. : Pearson Professional, 1997 and on posters for the Faculty of Nursing UTS -- Information from photographer, 1997