Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
by Florence Nightingale
(12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910)
by Florence Nightingale
(12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910)
• New York: D. Appleton and Company
•1860
•Nightingale is the founder of modern nursing.
•Nightingale thought nurses should learn through both experience and training. She founded the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at Saint Thomas’s Hospital in London (today known as the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London) in 1860.
•The opening of this school marked the beginning of professional nursing education.
•She transformed nursing into a respectable profession and set the standards for clean, safe hospitals worldwide (her book Notes on Hospitals deals with aspect).
•Notes on Nursing spells out the principles of nursing and served as the cornerstone of the curriculum at the Nightingale School.
•Nightingale was also a statistician and is credited with inventing the pie chart, to dramatize the needless deaths caused by unsanitary conditions during the Crimean war.
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