Notes on Nursing
What It Is, and What It Is Not
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- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2003
Summary
No one knows if Florence Nightingale deliberately set out to become a nursing champion, but it is clear that the 1859 publication of her book “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, And What It Is Not” secured her place in nursing history. By the author’s own admission, the work was not written as a training manual for nurses. Yet in many ways, this classic book, which was a best seller when issued and has been continuously in print since it was published 150 years ago, defines the precepts that becam…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780760749944 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0760749949 |
| Author: | Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti |
| Publisher: | Union Square & Co. |
| Imprint: | BookAnnex |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
| Series: | Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading |
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Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, history’s most notable nurse, earned her fame during the Crimean War. Nightingale led a group of three dozen nurses to Constantinople to serve in British military field hospitals, where female nurses had previously been forbidden. She convinced army officials to change terrible conditions in the hospitals, thus earning the gratitude of soldiers–and celebrity in her native England. When the war ended in 1856, she returned to London and continued her reform campaign. Her outspoken “Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British
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