Florence Nightingale and hospital reform / Lynn McDonald, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.

Contributor:

McDonald, Lynn, 1940-

Series:

Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. 2001 ; Works. v. 16.

Collected works of Florence Nightingale ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospital buildings--Great Britain--Design and construction--History--19th century.

Hospital buildings.

Public hospitals--Great Britain--Design and construction--History--19th century.

Public hospitals.

Military hospitals--Great Britain--Design and construction--History--19th century.

Military hospitals.

Nurses--Health and hygiene--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Nurses.

Health care reform--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Health care reform.

Crimean War, 1853-1856--Hospitals.

Crimean War, 1853-1856.

Crimean War, 1853-1856--Influence.

Hospitals.

History.

Nurses--Health and hygiene.

Great Britain.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Florence Nightingale began working on hospital reform even before she founded her famous school of nursing; hospitals were dangerous places for nurses as well as patients, and they urgently needed fundamental improvement. She continued to work on safer hospital design, location, and materials to the end of her working life, advising on plans for children's, general, military, and convalescent hospitals and workhouse infirmaries.

Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform includes her influential Notes on Hospitals, with its much-quoted musing on the need of a Hippocratic oath for hospitals-namely, that first they should do the sick no harm. Papers and correspondence with architects, engineers, doctors, philanthropists, local notables, and politicians are included. Nightingale's insistence on keeping good statistics to track rates of mortality and hospital stays, and on using them to compare hospitals, can be seen as good advice for today, given that the "hospital-acquired infections" she combatted have only taken on new forms. Book jacket.

Contents:

Notes on Hospitals

Notes on Hospitals, 1st and 2nd editions 1858 and 1859 43

[Sixteen Sanitary Defects in the Construction of Hospital Wards] 60

Note on the Hospital Plans 72

Notes on Hospitals, 3rd edition 1863 79

1 Sanitary Condition of Hospitals 83

Note A. On the Mortality of Hospital Nurses 97

Note B. On the History of the Doctrine of Contagion 99

Note C 100

2 Defects in Existing Hospital Plans and Construction 101

Note. On the Proportion of Attendants to Sick in Different Classes of Hospitals 122

3 Principles of Hospital Construction 124

4 Improved Hospital Plans 148

5 Convalescent Hospitals 164

6 Children's Hospitals 171

7 Indian Military Hospitals 178

8 Hospitals for Soldiers' Wives and Children 195

9 Hospital Statistics 196

B Proposal for Improved Statistics of Surgical Operations 210

Nomenclature of Operations 215

Appendix on Different Systems of Hospital Nursing 218

Distribution, Reviews and Response to Notes on Hospitals 224

Military Hospitals: Letters, Notes, Articles and Reports

Military Hospitals: Letters, Notes, Articles and Reports 233

Nightingale's Articles on Netley 265

A Contribution to the Sanitary History of the British Army 333

Gordon Boys' Home, 1885-90 475

Civil Hospitals: Letters and Notes

Civil Hospitals: Letters and Notes 497

List of Civil Hospitals on which Nightingale Advised 499

The Lisbon Children's Hospital, 1859-60 524

Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1859-61 532

"Hospital Statistics and Hospital Plans" 560

"Winchester Infirmary," Hampshire County Hospital, 1858-64 585

Midlands Hospitals, 1860-67 621

Buckinghamshire Infirmary, Aylesbury, 1859-69 638

Malta Civil Hospitals, 1862-65 661

Swansea General Hospital, 1864-65 673

Derby Infirmary, 1864-69 705

Workhouse Infirmaries, 1865-68 721

Sydney Infirmary (Prince Alfred Hospital), 1866-69 and 1874 736

Convalescent and Cottage Hospitals, 1857-74 754

St. Thomas' Hospital, 1859-74 775

Wellow School, 1872-74 798

Children's Hospitals, 1874-76 803

Montreal General Hospital, 1874-76 809

Typhoid Epidemic in Bangor, 1882 835

St Marylebone Workhouse Infirmary Nurses' Home Addition, 1882-83 840

Children's Hospitals, 1879-81 851

Convalescent and Cottage Hospitals, 1877-89 864

Liverpool Royal Infirmary, 1882-85 873

Women's Hospital, Euston Road, 1888 884

Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, 1888-89 891

"Hospitals" in Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 1889-90 908

Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, 1891-94 918

Metropolitan Fever Hospitals, 1893-95 927

Miscellaneous Last Work on Hospital Reform, from 1890 933.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780889204713

0889204713

OCLC:

805879464