Notes on Nursing Summary
Florence Nightingale

Notes on Nursing Summary

First published in 1860, "Notes on Nursing" is a guide on how to think like a nurse. The definition of nurse was much different than what it is today. Florence Nightingale's statistics show that there were two kinds of nurses. Domestic servants, who also took care of someone in the home and professional nurses, who worked in hospitals. Her statistics show that more than half of the nurses acting also as domestic...

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