Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform

by Lynn McDonald

Book Overview

Florence Nightingale began working on hospital reform even before she founded her famous school of nursing; hospitals were dangerous places for nurses as well as patients, and they urgently needed fundamental reform. She continued to work on safer hospital design, location, and materials to the end of her working life, advising on plans for children's, general, military, and convalescent hospitals and workhouse infirmaries. Florence Nightingale and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889204713
• ISBN13: 9780889204713
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 992 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"