4 options
Florence Nightingale : extending nursing / Lynn McDonald, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
- Series:
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. Works ; v. 13.
- Collected works of Florence Nightingale ; v. 13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
- Nightingale, Florence.
- Nightingale Training School (London, England)--History.
- Nightingale Training School (London, England).
- Nurses--Training of--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Nurses.
- Nursing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Nursing.
- Nurses--Training of--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (969 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Extending nursing
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, ON : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime's writing on nursing and to nurses is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to ""look to the future, not to the past,"" and often ignore her or rely on faulty secondary sources. Volume 12 related the founding of her school at St Thomas' Hospital and her guidance of its teaching for the rest of her life. Volume 13, Extending Nursing, relates the introduction of professional training and standards outside St Thomas', beginning with London hospitals and others in Britain, followed by hospitals
- Contents:
- Extending Nightingale nursing in hospitals. London hospitals. St. Bartholomew's. St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. (Royal) London Hospital, Whitechapel. Guy's England. Eastern Hospital, Homerton
- Hospitals in Southern England. Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
- Midlands and the North. Liverpool. Buxton Hospital
- Scottish hospitals. Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
- Other Scottish hospitals
- Irish hospitals
- Australian hospitals
- European hospitals
- American hospitals
- Canadian hospitals
- Other countries
- Retrospective on extending nursing in hospitals
- Nursing in workhouse infirmaries. Jane Senior, first woman poor law inspector. Workhouse nursing in Ireland
- District nursing. "Training nurses for the sick poor," 1876. The Queen's Jubilee Nursing Institute. Introduction to Rathbone's History of District Nursing. Correspondence with Amy Hughes. Extending district nursing in Britain. Extending district nursing outside Britain. Rural health visitors, "Health missioners". Last work on district nursing
- Append. A. Biographical sketches. Florence (Lees) Craven
- frances Elizabeth Spencer
- Elizabeth Vincent
- Rachel Williams, later Norris
- Alice Fisher
- Jane Elizabeth Styring
- Mary Juliana Pyne
- Amy Sarah Hughes
- Eva Charlotte Luckes
- Katharine Isabella Persse
- Flora Masson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612534294
- 9781554587469
- 1554587468
- 9781282534292
- 1282534297
- 9781554581702
- 1554581702
- OCLC:
- 625268199
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.