Florence Nightingale: Extending Nursing

by Lynn McDonald

Book Overview

Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime's writing on nursing and to nurses is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to "look to the future, not to the past," and often ignore her or rely on faulty secondary sources. Volume 12 related the founding of her school at St Thomas' Hospital and her guidance of its teaching for the rest of her life. Volume 13, Extending Nursing , relates the introduction of professional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889205205
• ISBN13: 9780889205208
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 950 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.4" x 6.4" x 9.0"