Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not: With a Chapter From 'Beneath the Banner, Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds' by F. J.

Florence Nightingale,F J Cross

ISBN 10: 1528716213 / ISBN 13: 9781528716215

Published by Brilliant Women - Read & Co. February 2020, 2020

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Light rubbing and smudges to covers, else tight and clean.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not: With a Chapter From 'Beneath the Banner, Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds' by F. J.
• Publisher: Brilliant Women - Read & Co. February 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1528716213
• ISBN 13: 9781528716215
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • 52-HEALTH/MEDICAL

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Synopsis

Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) was an English social reformer, statistician, and pioneer of modern nursing. She became famous during the time she served as manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, giving nursing a positive reputation and becoming a Victorian culture icon. Also known as "The Lady with the Lamp", she was an accomplished writer who produced work related to medical knowledge. Nightingale's 1859 work “Notes on Nursing - What It Is, and What It Is Not” represented the fundaments of the curriculum at the Nightingale School and other nursing schools, despite originally devised as a guide for home nursing. It includes every day sanitary knowledge, covering such topics as taking food and what kinds of food, bed and bedding, light, cleanliness of rooms, personal cleanliness, etc. Contents include: “Ventilation And Warming”, “Health Of Houses”, “Petty Management”, “Noise”, “Variety”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: "Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses" (1914), "Suggestions for Thought" (1860), and "Una and the Lion" (1871). Read & Co. are republishing this volume now in a modern edition complete with an introductory from “Beneath the Banner, Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds” by F. J. Cross.