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Work InformationNotes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale (1860)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth was celebrated on May 12, 2020. She was an amazing woman deserving of all the praise given. Among her advice for standard nursing care concerned with cleanliness and fresh air, are some interesting nuggets, such as: "Always sit within the patient's view, so that when you speak he has not to turn his head round in order to look at you." While most notes are common sense today, the Victorian sickroom was usually dark, stuffy, and fetid. Thankfully, our homes and hospitals are more hygienic than those of Nightingale's time and the swish of crinolines rarely keep a patient awake nowadays. It's an interesting look back at nursing and how it evolved especially when it is front page news at present. no reviews | add a review
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Written by nursing's brilliant first theorist/researcher and first published in 1859, Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not is regarded as nursing's first textbook. An ideal gift for anyone in nursing, this special edition contains the original text in its entirety with commentaries by 12 prominent nursing theorists. Beautifully bound with marbled end pages, gilded edges, and a ribbon book marker. No library descriptions found. |
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I did not finish this book; I read about as much of it as interested me and then moved on, and you can't say fairer than that. ( )