Notes on Nursing
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Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859[1]. A 136-page volume, it was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others. Florence Nightingale stressed that it was not meant to be a comprehensive guide from which to teach one's self to be a nurse but to help in the practice of treating others.
The book included advice and practices for the following areas:
- ventilation and warming
- health in houses
- petty management (how things are done by others when you must be away)
- noise
- variety (environment)
- taking food and what kinds of food
- bed and bedding
- light
- cleanliness of rooms
- personal cleanliness
- chattering hopes and advices (the false assurances and recommendations of family and friends to the sick)
- observation of the sick
Later editions of Notes on Nursing are available to the public today.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Contents of the 1860 First American Edition book online
- Notes on Nursing: Dr Constance B Schuyler (1992), contains facsimile of First Edition published in London 1859
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