Notes on Hospitals

Brief Description: This is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1859 by John W. Parker and Son, London. Biographical Note: The founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale (1829-1910) developed her ideas in the 1850s while taking care of British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War. She wrote "Notes on Hospitals "during the same period as "Notes on Nursing, " which is also a Dover publication and has remained in print since its 1859 debut. Jacket Description/Back: The founder of modern nursing expressed her revolutionary ideas of hospital reform in these two essays, published in 1859 and presented the previous year at the Social Science Congress. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale achieved renown as The Lady with the Lamp, the tireless caretaker of wounded soldiers. Afterward, 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. In these essays she 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 modern readers. This volume serves as a companion to Nightingale's classic of nursing literature, "Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not."Dover (2015) republication of the edition originally published by John W. Parker and Son, London, 1859. See every Dover book in print atwww.doverpublications.comMarc Notes: Florence Nightingale expressed her revolutionary ideas of hospital reform in these 1858 essays. Her subjects include overcrowding, dampness prevention, and adequate ventilation and sanitation for patients. Publisher Marketing: The founder of modern nursing expressed her revolutionary ideas of hospital reform in these two essays, published in 1859 and presented the previous year at the Social Science Congress. During the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale achieved renown as The Lady with the Lamp, the tireless caretaker of wounded soldiers. Afterward, 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. In these essays she 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 modern readers. This volume serves as a companion to Nightingale's classic of nursing literature, "Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not."

Contributor Bio:  Nightingale, Florence Florence Nightingale was born in 1820. As a young woman, she felt God was calling her to do good work, and in 1851 she went to Germany for three months of nursing training that led to her becoming superintendent of a hospital for gentlewomen in London in 1853. That year, the Crimean War began, and newspapers described the desperate lack of proper medical facilities for wounded British soldiers at the front. The War Ministry asked Nightingale to oversee a team of nurses in the military hospitals, and in November 1854, she arrived in Turkey. With her nurses, she greatly improved the conditions and substantially reduced the mortality rate. When she returned to England, she established the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in London. Her trained nurses were sent to hospitals all over Britain, where they introduced new ideas and established nursing training on the Nightingale model. Nightingale's theories, published in "Notes on Nursing" (1860), were hugely influential, and her concerns for sanitation, military health, and hospital planning established practices still in existence today. She died in 1910.