Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not - Hardcover

Nightingale, Florence; Kessler R. N. M. S. N. M. Ed, Anita S.

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ISBN 10: 1934451835 ISBN 13: 9781934451830

Verlag: A & D Publishing, 2007

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Neither in my own nursing education at the B.S.N. nor at the M.S.N. level, was it even suggested, much less required, that I read any of Florence Nightingale's original writings. Even as a nurse educator for over 30 years, I did not require my students to read her writings. After reading this book, I now believe it is a void in the education of a nurse not to read at least some of the writings of the founder of modern day nursing. Notes on Nursing would be an excellent choice. This book introduces and discusses, to some degree, many of the concepts nurses have been dealing with since before my entrance into the field in the 1969, and certainly ever since. Included in these pages are concepts such as holistic health, home health, alternative therapies, health prevention and maintenance, the role of women in nursing and in everyday life, nursing administration, leadership, communications skills, mind/body and body/mind relationships. Her theory on the use of light, fresh air, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet is also well explored. Some of the comments are unexpected and very insightful. - Anita S. Kessler, R.N., M.S.N., M.Ed.Florence Nightingale was the founder of the modern nursing profession. She single handedly revolutionized medical treatment with her writings on nursing.Anita S. Kessler has been an educator of nurses for more than thirty years

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Florence Nightingale was an English nurse, reformer, statistician, and writer whose work transformed the practice and public understanding of nursing. Born in 1820 into a wealthy British family, she rejected the conventional expectations placed on women of her class and pursued a life of service, study, and practical reform. Her work during the Crimean War made her internationally famous, but her lasting importance rests not merely on her wartime service, but on the disciplined system of observation, sanitation, hospital management, and patient care that she helped bring into modern nursing.Nightingale believed that nursing required intelligence, discipline, moral seriousness, and close attention to the patient's environment. In Notes on Nursing, first published in 1859, she set out practical principles concerning ventilation, cleanliness, light, noise, food, bedding, patient observation, and the responsibilities of those entrusted with the care of the sick. The book was not intended as a complete nursing manual, but as a set of "hints for thought" for women and caregivers responsible for health in the home and in institutions.Her influence extended far beyond the sickroom. Nightingale helped establish nursing as a trained profession, founded the Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, and used statistical evidence to argue for better hospitals, military medical reform, public sanitation, and more humane systems of care. She is widely regarded as a founder of modern professional nursing, and her writings remain important to the history of medicine, nursing education, public health, and women's reform.

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• Verlag: A & D Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1934451835
• ISBN 13: 9781934451830
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 116
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