Notes on Nightingale: The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon

by Anne Marie Rafferty and Sioban Nelson

Book Overview

Florence Nightingale remains an inspiration to nurses around the world for her pioneering work treating wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War; authorship of Notes on Nursing, the foundational text for nursing practice; establishment of the world's first nursing school; and advocacy for the hygienic treatment of patients and sanitary design of hospitals.

In Notes on Nightingale, nursing historians and scholars offer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801476119
• ISBN13: 9780801476112
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: ILR Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher