About the Book
This 2017 edition of Notes on Nursing is the first in history to be made into a NURSING-STUDENT-FRIENDLY EDITION with focus questions for each chapter, author quotes, and a full index that includes a glossary, word index, author bio, and additional sources for nurses - all designed to make reading and studying this book much easier and much more enjoyable. A modern nurse can learn more from Florence Nightingale with our edition than any edition published before in.
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While medical knowledge has significantly increased since Nightingale's time, her common sense and wisdom still form a solid basis for caring for sick people today. Nightingale created higher standards for the nursing profession with this book. This helped transform nursing into the respectable profession we know today. Notes on Nursing continues to provide an excellent resource for nurses.
Special Features Used in This Book
Foreword
The foreword has a discussion about the book's format and a discussion about the books subject.
Section Headings
These descriptive headings break the book down into manageable sections for reading and for discussion.
Focus Questions
Key questions to prepare the reader for the concepts addressed in each chapter. A short list of questions is highlighted at the beginning of each chapter.
Glossary
Medical and non-medical terminology used throughout the book are defined to help the reader better understand and learn more. Difficult and obscure words and terms are underlined throughout the text and defined in the glossary.
Quotes
Important and interesting quotes from the author are highlighted in every chapter.
Word Index
The reader will have no trouble finding any of the important subjects mentioned in the book.
Foot Notes
Used throughout the text.
Additional Sources
Extensive listing of the best books and websites related to the book's topic are listed for further exploration.
From The Preface
The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others.
Every woman, or at least almost every woman in England, has, at one time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid - in other words, every woman is a nurse. Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing - or in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a state as that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It is recognized as the knowledge which every one ought to have - distinct from medical knowledge, which only a profession can have.
If, then, every woman must at some time or other of her life, become a nurse, i.e., have charge of somebody's health, how immense and how valuable would be the produce of her united experience if every woman would think how to nurse. I do not pretend to teach her how, I ask her to teach herself, and for this purpose I venture to give her some hints.
About the Author :
At the great age of ninety years Florence Nightingale, the reformer of military brutalities, known in her day as army hospitals and army medicine, the forerunner and prophetess of the Red Cross, the creator of the modern profession of skilled nursing; the foremost sanitarian of her day and, with Pasteur, the incomparable teacher of health preservation and disease prevention - Florence Nightingale, the Lady with a Lamp, has gone quietly to rest. Born in 1820, she was thirty-four years old when she took charge of the expedition of nurses to the Crimea, which brought her into the white light of the world's attention. Already, quietly and unostentatiously, she had spent some ten years in the most searching and laborious study of hospital administration, building, and sanitation, nursing, hygiene, and principles of prevention. Before that she had received a liberal education of unusual range and thoroughness. After the Crimean war, broken in health, she became more and more inevitably secluded in the quiet rooms of a chronic invalid, but from these restricted quarters her remarkable intellect swept the entire globe and, for almost fifty years longer, she remained the magnetic center of attraction and the source of counsel and inspiration for all persons and groups of persons in diverse lands who carried the banner of service to the sick whether in hospitals, homes, or barracks. It is probably not too much to say that, during all this long period, not a really important piece of pioneer work in these directions was undertaken or a weighty problem encountered in either hemisphere that was not laid before her for advice, or at least that she might know of it. To future ages, doubtless, her remarkable teachings on prevention will seem the most brilliant proofs of her really great, original genius. From the first she dwelt more upon health than upon sickness. "Health nursing" is her expression. "Since God did not mean mothers to be always accompanied by doctors," she wrote, "there is a want older still and larger still.... This is the art of health, which...every woman ought practically to learn. Call it health nursing.... Upon woman-kind the national health, as far as the household goes, depends." Miss Nightingale wrote much and her works upon nursing and hospitals, army reorganization and medical relief are classics. She never wrote even the smallest autobiography, but it is much to be hoped that the remaining members of her family will publish a complete history of her remarkable life. Michele is a Certified Instructor and specializes in providing Certification classes in ACLS, BLS, and PALS. Visit her website to see more about her classes, books, study guides, essays, and articles. Visit Michele's YouTube page to see all of her free video lessons. Michele has been a clinical nursing educator for over 32 years. During those years, she has helped many thousands of nurses improve their own job performance and increase their own job satisfaction. Michele considers herself to be a nurse's nurse, because she is not hidden away in a classroom or office, but out on the floor everyday - interacting with hospital management, the nurses, the patients, and the physicians. For many years Kunz was the Director of Nursing Education and Informatics at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. She was in the LICH Nursing Education Department for 25 years. Kunz developed the desire to teach nurses over 30 years ago when she was an ICU nurse at Staten Island Hospital (now called SI University Hosptial). It was at SIH that Kunz realized that she could learn how to be a better nurse by teaching the other nurses. Kunz hasn't stopped teaching since then. Kunz is now the Critical Care Educator at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre, Long Island, NY. She is also the Director of Education at Dickson Keanaghan, LLC, a company that she helped create, where Michele and Joe train and certify the medical staff of over 600 hospitals, medical offices, and surgi-centers on Long Island, New York City, and Westchester.
Review :
-Because these notes record the skillful observations of a trained eye and mind on the fundamental needs of human beings in sickness and in the prevention of sickness, they are to a great degree timeless in their usefulness to the student of nursing in any country in the world.
-Virginia M. Dunbar, Dean, Cornell University
New York Hospital, New York City, 1946
-As one reads these notes one is impressed with the fact that the fundamental needs of the sick and the principles of good care for the well and the ill are the same today as when they were observed by Nightingale over one-hundred-years ago.
-Margaret B. Dolan, Professor and Head,
Dept. of Public Health Nursing, School of Public Health,
Univ. of North Carolina, 1969
-This is the work of genius if ever I saw one; it will, I doubt not, create an Order of Nurses before it has finished its work.
-Harriet Martineau, author of fiction and non-fiction, c. 1860
