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THIS edition is the first in history to be made into a nursing-student friendly edition with focus questions for each chapter, author quotes, and a full index that includes a glossary, word index, author bio, and additional sources for nurses - all designed to make reading and studying this book much easier and much more enjoyable. A modern nurse can learn more from Florence Nightingale with our edition than any edition published before in history. While medical knowledge has significantly increased since Nightingale's time, her common sense & wisdom still form a solid basis for caring for sick people today. Nightingale created higher standards for the nursing profession with this book. This helped transform nursing into the respectable profession we know today. Notes on Nursing continues to provide an excellent resource for nurses.
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Florence Nightingale the Soldier of Health
At the age of 90 Florence Nightingale, the reformer of military brutalities, known in her day as army hospitals and army medicine, the forerunner and prophetess of the Red Cross, the creator of the modern profession of skilled nursing; the foremost sanitarian of her day and, with Pasteur, the incomparable teacher of health preservation and disease prevention - Florence Nightingale, the Lady with a Lamp, has gone quietly to rest.
Born in 1820, she was 34 years old when she took charge of the expedition of nurses to the Crimea, which brought her into the white light of the world's attention. Already, quietly and unostentatiously, she had spent some ten years in the most searching and laborious study of hospital administration, building, and sanitation, nursing, hygiene, and principles of prevention. Before that she had received a liberal education of unusual range and thoroughness. After the Crimean war, broken in health, she became more and more inevitably secluded in the quiet rooms of a chronic invalid, but from these restricted quarters her remarkable intellect swept the entire globe and, for almost fifty years longer, she remained the magnetic center of attraction and the source of counsel and inspiration for all persons and groups of persons in diverse lands who carried the banner of service to the sick whether in hospitals, homes, or barracks. It is probably not too much to say that, during all this long period, not a really important piece of pioneer work in these directions was undertaken or
a weighty problem encountered in either hemisphere that was not laid before her for advice, or at least that she might know of it.
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THIS edition is the first in history to be made into a nursing-student friendly edition with focus questions for each chapter, author quotes, and a full index that includes a glossary, word index, author bio, and additional sources for nurses - all designed to make reading and studying this book much easier and much more enjoyable. A modern nurse can learn more from Florence Nightingale with our edition than any edition published before in history.
While medical knowledge has significantly increased since Nightingale's time, her common sense & wisdom still form a solid basis for caring for sick people today. Nightingale created higher standards for the nursing profession with this book. This helped transform nursing into the respectable profession we know today. Notes on Nursing continues to provide an excellent resource for nurses.
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Notes About This Book
Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not, was published by Florence Nightingale when she was 39. It was approximately her 16th publication (books, articles, essays, etc.). She was involved in health-care for approximately 14 years by the time she wrote this book. It was originally published in London in December of 1859 in a 79-page booklet by the book publisher Harrison. In the first few months 15,000 copies were sold. This booklet laid down the principles of nursing, with special emphasis on the careful observation and sensitivity of the patient's needs.
The first American edition was published by Appleton & Co., in New York in 1860 as a 103-page copy of the 1859 edition. The second London edition, printed in 1860, was simply a more professionally produced copy of the first 1859 edition. The third London edition was published in 1861, and the original title was changed to Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes. This 1861 edition had a section called "Minding Baby" added to the original 1859 edition. A fourth London edition was printed in 1868, of which approximately 74,000 were printed over the next 41 years, in several languages. Some have estimated that there were at least 50 printings between 1868 and 1948 - several of which had commentaries added to them.
Our 2008 commemorative student-edition marks the 149th anniversary of the first American edition. It is similar to the second and third edition, but with some changes and many additions. Our edition is the first in history to be made into a nursing-student friendly edition with commentary, glossary, and index. A modern nurse can learn much more from Florence Nightingale with our edition than any edition published before in history. Couple this with a well-known and very experienced nursing teacher (Michele Kunz) giving us her opinion, advice, and commentary, and we end up with a winning combination that has become essential reading for today's modern nurse.
Dickson Keanaghan, LLC
New York, 2008
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