Notes on Nursing (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): What It Is, and What It Is Not - Softcover

Nightingale, Florence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0760749949 ISBN 13: 9780760749944

Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

Defines the precepts that became the prototype for contemporary nursing practice. This title provides a historical perspective on the evolution of healthcare delivery, and offers an intimate glimpse into the Victorian Age. It also includes modern-day concepts such as the mind-body connection, plant therapy, and pet therapy.

About this title

Book Description:

Nightingale's influential Notes on Nursing was required reading at her nursing school and a popular success. Emphasising the need for nurses to observe, ventilate, clean, and monitor diet, her book remains popular even today. It is also hailed for its sensitive instructions on interacting with the sick.

From the Author:

Preface

The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others.

Every woman, or at least almost every woman in England, has, at one time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid - in other words, every woman is a nurse.  Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing - or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place.  It is recognized as the knowledge which every one ought to have - distinct from medical knowledge, which only a profession
can have.

If, then, every woman must at some time or other of her life, become a nurse, i.e., have charge of somebody's health, how immense and how valuable would be the produce of her united experience if every woman would think how to nurse.

I do not pretend to teach her how, I ask her to teach herself, and for this purpose I venture to give her some hints.

Florence Nightingale
London, 1898 --Editor

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0760749949
• ISBN 13: 9780760749944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144