Notes on Nursing
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4.3 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
One is impressed with the fact that the fundamental needs of the sick as observed by Miss Nightingale are amazingly similar today (even though they are generally taken for granted now) to what they were over 100 years ago when this book was written.
Customer Reviews
Innovation at last
Innovation springs from the root innovare - to renew.
Florence does justice to many of the problems in nursing today. She speaks of how a trustworthy nurse would not allow derelictions in nutrition or pressure care. Yet she measures this by stating where nursing cannot occur, and that is principally down to, in her words, "petty management".
She advises on proper self management, i.e. Not making oneself indispensable. Having systems in place where the Sister does not have to be there all the time, and yet the quality of the work does not suffer.
A few of gems included may be unpalatable to modern sensibilities. The honest reader will see through these time shifts for the applications within.