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Title: Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment
Note: Reading ease score: 51.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
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Summary: "Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment by Nightingale and Rathbone" is a historical account written during the mid-19th century. This book documents the pioneering initiatives taken by the Select Vestry of Liverpool to reform nursing practices in workhouse infirmaries by introducing trained nurses, highlighting the need for better care for the sick poor. The text focuses on the substantial improvements resulting from these reforms and provides insights into the necessary changes in how sick patients in workhouses were cared for, indicating a significant shift in social attitudes and nursing standards of that era. The narrative outlines the processes and considerations behind implementing trained nursing staff into the male wards of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary. It begins with the identification of inadequacies in the existing nursing system, which primarily relied on untrained pauper nurses. The text features correspondences from prominent figures such as Florence Nightingale, emphasizing the importance of skilled nursing, and details the trials and subsequent successes of employing qualified nurses. Through careful observation and assessment, the work describes the transformative impact on patient care quality, operational improvements, and the broader implications for policymaking in public health during a time when the welfare of the poor was a crucial issue faced by society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Author: Rathbone, William, 1819-1902
EBook No.: 50432
Published: Nov 11, 2015
Downloads: 60
Language: English
Subject: Nursing
Subject: Poor -- Medical care
LoCC: Medicine: Nursing
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment
Note: Reading ease score: 51.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
Credits:
Produced by MWS, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http:
//www.pgdp.net
(This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Summary: "Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment by Nightingale and Rathbone" is a historical account written during the mid-19th century. This book documents the pioneering initiatives taken by the Select Vestry of Liverpool to reform nursing practices in workhouse infirmaries by introducing trained nurses, highlighting the need for better care for the sick poor. The text focuses on the substantial improvements resulting from these reforms and provides insights into the necessary changes in how sick patients in workhouses were cared for, indicating a significant shift in social attitudes and nursing standards of that era. The narrative outlines the processes and considerations behind implementing trained nursing staff into the male wards of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary. It begins with the identification of inadequacies in the existing nursing system, which primarily relied on untrained pauper nurses. The text features correspondences from prominent figures such as Florence Nightingale, emphasizing the importance of skilled nursing, and details the trials and subsequent successes of employing qualified nurses. Through careful observation and assessment, the work describes the transformative impact on patient care quality, operational improvements, and the broader implications for policymaking in public health during a time when the welfare of the poor was a crucial issue faced by society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Author: Rathbone, William, 1819-1902
EBook No.: 50432
Published: Nov 11, 2015
Downloads: 60
Language: English
Subject: Nursing
Subject: Poor -- Medical care
LoCC: Medicine: Nursing
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.