Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (Dover Books on Biology)

by Florence Nightingale

Paperback, 1969

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Checked out

Due Sep 2, 2023

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Dover Publications (1969), Edition: 1, 160 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.

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½ (27 ratings; 3.8)

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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!