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Florence Nightingale : the Nightingale School / Lynn McDonald, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
- Series:
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. Works ; 12.
- Collected works of Florence Nightingale ; v. 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
- Nightingale, Florence.
- Nightingale Training School (London, England)--History.
- Nightingale Training School (London, England).
- Nursing--Europe.
- Nursing.
- Nursing--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History.
- Nurses--Great Britain--Biography.
- Nurses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (950 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Nightingale School
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfred Laurier University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime's writing on nursing 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. Nightingale's work on nursing is now available to scholars and general readers alike through the publication of volumes 12 and 13 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Volume 12, The Nightingale School, relates the founding of her school at St Thomas' Hospital and her guidance of its teaching for the rest of her life. V
- Contents:
- Florence Nightingale: A Precis of Her Life
- Key to Editing
- Nightingale's Preparation for Nursing
- Nightingale School in Operation
- State Registration of Nurses
- Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
- 1. Ventilation and Warming
- 2. Health of Houses
- 3. Petty Management
- 4. Noise
- 5. Variety
- 6. Taking Food
- 7. What Food?
- 8. Bed and Bedding
- 9. Light
- 10. Cleanliness of Rooms and Walls
- 11. Personal Cleanliness
- 12. Chattering Hopes and Advices
- 13. Observation of the Sick
- Supplementary Chapter: What Is a Nurse?
- Convalescence
- Children in London
- Note Upon Some Errors in Novels
- Method of Polishing Floors
- Note Upon Employment of Women
- Note as to the Number of Women Employed
- As Nurses in Great Britain
- "Nurses, Training of," and "Nursing the Sick," in Quain's Dictionary of Medicine
- Florence Nightingale's Addresses to Nurses
- Appendix A. Biographical Sketches
- Appendix B. Regulations and Application, Nightingale School
- Appendix C. Nightingale School Probationers.
- Notes:
- Written by Florence Nightingale, including a reprint of the 2nd ed. of Notes on nursing.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612534454
- 9781554587452
- 155458745X
- 9781282534452
- 1282534459
- 9781554581696
- 1554581699
- OCLC:
- 625106167
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