Notes on Hospitals

Florence Nightingale's classic historical text on hospitals emphasizes the importance of hygiene, fresh air, water, cleanliness, proper drainage, and ample light, along with ongoing consideration for patients' feelings. Nightingale's ability to effectively articulate her ideas impressed her contemporaries and continues to influence readers of today. During the Crimean War, Nightingale gained fame as The Lady with the Lamp, tirelessly caring for wounded soldiers. She later searched Europe for innovations to improve army hospital care, and her findings and suggestions profoundly affected the medical community. Despite advances in medical knowledge since Nightingale's era, her common-sense approach to nursing remains a solid foundation. Notes on Hospitals, published in conjunction with the Florence Nightingale Museum, celebrates the bicentenary of Nightingale and serves as a companion to her classic nursing literature, Notes on Nursing.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 12 May 2021
Publisher: Rydon Publishing

In this classic historical text on hospitals, Florence Nightingale voices the importance of hygiene, fresh air and water, cleanliness, proper drainage, and ample light as well as ongoing consideration for patients' feelings. Nightingale's ability to effectively articulate her ideas impressed her contemporaries and continues to influence readers of today. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale achieved renown as "The Lady with the Lamp", the tireless caretaker of wounded soldiers. Later, Nightingale searched Europe for innovations to help the army improve its hospital care. This report of her findings and suggestions had a profound effect on the medical community and reestablished the author as an international healthcare authority. Despite the advances in medical knowledge since Nightingale's era, her common sense-approach continues to form a solid foundation for nursing. Publishing in conjunction with the Florence Nightingale Museum, Notes on Hospitals celebrates the bicentenary anniversary of Florence Nightingale. This volume serves as a companion to Nightingale's classic of nursing literature, Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not 9781910821374. AUTHOR: Florence Nightingale (12 May 1820-13 August 1910) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager of nurses trained by her during the Crimean War, where she organised the tending to wounded soldiers. She gave nursing a highly favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.

Weight: 194g
Dimension: 152 x 230 x 9 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781910821367