Status
Checked out
Publication
Dover Publications (1969), Edition: 1, Paperback, 140 pages
Description
Written by nursing's brilliant first theorist/researcher and first published in 1859, Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not is regarded as nursing's first textbook. An ideal gift for anyone in nursing, this special edition contains the original text in its entirety with commentaries by 12 prominent nursing theorists. Beautifully bound with marbled end pages, gilded edges, and a ribbon book marker.
User reviews
LibraryThing member lisahistory
Interestingly written, deceptively impersonal, Nightingale's book not only takes on the prevailing "wisdom" about care for the sick, but gives advice that is extremely pertinent today. Open those windows!
Subjects
Original publication date
1860
Physical description
140 p.; 8.14 inches
ISBN
048622340X / 9780486223407