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Notes on Hospitals 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Florence Nightingale (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The founder of modern nursing expressed her revolutionary ideas of hospital reform in these two essays, published in 1859 and presented the previous year at the Social Science Congress. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale achieved renown as The Lady with the Lamp, the tireless caretaker of wounded soldiers. Afterward, Nightingale searched Europe for innovations to help the army improve its hospital care. This report of her findings and suggestions had a profound effect on the medical community and reestablished the author as an international healthcare authority.
Despite the advances in medical knowledge since Nightingale's era, her common-sense approach continues to form a solid foundation for nursing. In these essays she voices the importance of hygiene―fresh air and water, cleanliness, proper drainage, and ample light―as well as ongoing consideration for patients' feelings. Nightingale's ability to effectively articulate her ideas impressed her contemporaries and continues to influence modern readers. This volume serves as a companion to Nightingale's classic of nursing literature, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not.
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    February 9, 2015
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The founder of modern nursing expressed her revolutionary ideas of hospital reform in these two essays, published in 1859 and presented the previous year at the Social Science Congress. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale achieved renown as The Lady with the Lamp, the tireless caretaker of wounded soldiers. Afterward, Nightingale searched Europe for innovations to help the army improve its hospital care. This report of her findings and suggestions had a profound effect on the medical community and reestablished the author as an international healthcare authority.
Despite the advances in medical knowledge since Nightingale's era, her common-sense approach continues to form a solid foundation for nursing. In these essays she voices the importance of hygiene―fresh air and water, cleanliness, proper drainage, and ample light―as well as ongoing consideration for patients' feelings. Nightingale's ability to effectively articulate her ideas impressed her contemporaries and continues to influence modern readers. This volume serves as a companion to Nightingale's classic of nursing literature, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not.
Dover (2015) republication of the edition originally published by John W. Parker and Son, London, 1859.
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The founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale (1829–1910) developed her ideas in the 1850s while taking care of British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War. She wrote Notes on Hospitals during the same period as Notes on Nursing, which is also a Dover publication and has remained in print since its 1859 debut.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00TKQTMNQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; 1st edition (February 9, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 9, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 7896 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 230 pages
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Florence Nightingale

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An English social reformer and statistician, Florence Nightingale is celebrated as the founder of modern nursing. She helped abolish prostitution laws that were overly-harsh towards women and advocated for significant health reforms for all of British Society. She made significant accomplishments in professionalizing nursing roles for women, such as founding the first secular nursing school in Britain at St. Thomas Hospital. She was a skilled and versatile writer, whose work spread medical knowledge and was often presented in a clear and simple manner for those of poor literacy skills. After her death in 1910, her work survives her in the Nightingale Pledge, an oath still taken by nurses today.

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Gemma pc
5.0 out of 5 stars Florence nightingale notes in hospitals
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This is more of a history book really, but interesting to note the way in which she describes the layout of the wards with such eloquency, and she does this with a very well spoken and written dialect in the text. I intend to read it when i have a moment as it would make for a very useful tool in the hospitals of today.
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Pretty splendid read. Pretty splendid woman!
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