Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not

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.

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.