In this work, Florence Nightingale set out her principle of care for the sick and the injured. The author combined first-hand experience in health care with an instinct for organization and creative expression. This was the first book the author wrote for general readership.
Outspoken writings by the founder of modern nursing record fundamentals in the needs of the sick that must be provided in all nursing. Covers such timeless topics as ventilation, noise,...
Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859. A 76-page volume with 3 page appendix published by...
Yet in many ways, this classic book, which was a best seller when issued and has been continuously in print since it was published 150 years ago, defines the precepts that became the prototype for contemporary nursing practice, provides a ...
Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title! "This beautiful book bound in red leather includes an in-depth history about each version and the preparation and publishing of Nightingale's works.
This book offers new scholarship on Nightingale's work in the Crimea and the British colonies and her connection to the emerging science of statistics, as well as valuable reevaluations of her evolving legacy and the surrounding myths, ...
Nightingale created higher standards for the nursing profession with this book. This helped transform nursing into the respectable profession we know today. Notes on Nursing continues to provide an excellent resource for nurses.
We were given “lessons” that were informed on the ideas of Virginia Henderson's theory of basic human needs,1 Dorothy Johnson's behavioral system model,2 and Nightingale's foundational ideas of what nursing is, and what it is not.
After reading this book, I now believe it is a void in the education of a nurse not to read at least some of the writings of the founder of modern day nursing. Notes on Nursing would be an excellent choice.
Notes on Hospitals
Notes on Hospitals by Florence Nightingale, first published in 1863, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a...