WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and War cover

Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and War

By Florence Nightingale
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

Gender & Sexuality StudiesHealth & MedicineHistory - Modern (1750+)History - Warfare

About This Book

A practical manual of recommendations for introducing and managing female nursing in military and civil hospitals, offering rules on duties, supervision, pay, pensions, discipline, and training. It compares nursing systems used by different nations in wartime, sets staffing ratios and orderly responsibilities, and proposes relations between nurses, matrons, medical officers, and hospital governors. Detailed appendices advise on pavilion ward layout, sanitation, ventilation, laundries, meals, night duty, management of contagious cases, classification of patients, and recordkeeping, and include proposals for a nurses’ provident fund and for teaching and counting nursing personnel.

About the Author

Nightingale, Florence portrait

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was a pioneering figure in nursing and healthcare reform, known for her foundational work in establishing nursing as a respected profession for women. She gained prominence during the Crimean War, where her efforts to improve sanitary conditions in military hospitals significantly reduced the death rate. Nightingale authored several influential texts, including "Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not," which provided essential guidelines for nursing practice and patient care. Her commitment to health statistics and sanitation laid the groundwork for modern nursing and public health initiatives, making her a key figure in the history of medicine.

More Books by This Author

6 picks
Directions for Cooking by Troops, in Camp and Hospital / Prepared for the Army of Virginia, and published by order of the Surgeon General, with essays on "taking food," and "what food." cover Directions for Cooking by Troops, in Camp and Hospital / Prepared for the Army of Virginia, and published by order of the Surgeon General, with essays on "taking food," and "what food." by Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses / A selection from Miss Nightingale's addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale school at St. Thomas's hospital cover Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses / A selection from Miss Nightingale's addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale school at St. Thomas's hospital by Florence Nightingale Introductory notes on lying-in institutions cover Introductory notes on lying-in institutions by Florence Nightingale Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not cover Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not by Florence Nightingale Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals cover Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals by Florence Nightingale Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment cover Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment by Florence Nightingale

You May Also Like

6 picks
A Discourse on the Plague cover A Discourse on the Plague by Richard Mead On the Trail of Grant and Lee cover On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill A Woman Rice Planter cover A Woman Rice Planter by Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle Of Medicine, in Eight Books cover Of Medicine, in Eight Books by Aulus Cornelius Celsus Nurse and Spy in the Union Army / The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields cover Nurse and Spy in the Union Army / The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds Practical Methods of Sewage Disposal for Residences, Hotels and Institutions cover Practical Methods of Sewage Disposal for Residences, Hotels and Institutions by Henry N. Ogden