Project Gutenberg 2005-12-21 Public domain in the USA. 779 Nightingale, Florence 1820 1910 Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not Reading ease score: 67.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not" by Florence Nightingale is a groundbreaking treatise on nursing, written in the mid-19th century. This work serves as a guide for those who take on the responsibility of caring for the health of others, particularly women who will inevitably assume a nursing role at some point in their lives. The text emphasizes the importance of proper nursing practices and the fundamental principles of sanitation and care that can lead to better health outcomes. The beginning of Nightingale's work outlines her perspective on nursing as more than merely administering medication; it encompasses the creation of a healing environment through fresh air, cleanliness, warmth, and quiet. She addresses common misconceptions about disease, emphasizing that suffering often stems from poor nursing rather than the illness itself. Highlighting the essential roles of observation, environment, and personal nurturing, Nightingale sets the stage for her recommendations on effective nursing practices throughout the text. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Nursing RT Text Medicine Browsing: Health & Medicine Browsing: Teaching & Education 329825 329824 2024-10-07T15:10:06.491144 2023-09-08T05:35:08.865384 text/html text/html 325701 2020-12-13T12:11:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 132666 2020-12-13T12:11:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 226795 2024-10-07T15:10:16.071090 application/epub+zip 231054 2024-10-07T15:10:10.725100 application/epub+zip 183511 2024-10-07T15:10:09.227111 application/epub+zip 470436 2024-10-07T15:10:19.829595 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 448963 2024-10-07T15:10:15.074084 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 338508 2022-09-08T10:43:22.515788 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 286210 285983 2024-10-07T15:10:05.627154 2023-09-08T05:35:08.174368 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 285901 2020-12-13T12:11:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 106015 2020-12-13T12:11:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 285898 2020-12-13T12:11:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 105975 2020-12-13T12:11:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21378 2024-10-07T15:10:19.964594 application/rdf+xml 20920 2024-10-07T15:10:09.802132 image/jpeg 4479 2024-10-07T15:10:09.510148 image/jpeg 221299 2024-10-07T15:10:06.521136 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia