Project Gutenberg 2015-11-11 Public domain in the USA. 86 Nightingale, Florence 1820 1910 Rathbone, William 1819 1902 Rathbone, W. (William) Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment 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.) "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.) en Nursing Poor -- Medical care RT Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: Health & Medicine 105168 105169 2024-09-21T05:50:29.126946 2023-09-22T03:43:53.925602 text/html text/html 100180 2015-11-10T18:59:42 text/html; charset=utf-8 68064 2015-11-10T19:00:28 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 83586 2024-09-21T05:50:32.919912 application/epub+zip 84080 2024-09-21T05:50:30.488937 application/epub+zip 84080 2024-09-21T05:50:29.836939 application/epub+zip 122388 2024-09-21T05:50:34.660922 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 109425 2024-09-21T05:50:32.309919 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 109636 2022-09-22T18:37:34.372580 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 87578 87358 2024-09-21T05:50:28.795948 2023-09-22T03:43:53.636575 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 87852 2015-11-10T18:59:40 text/plain; charset=utf-8 31091 2015-11-10T19:00:28 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 87622 2015-11-10T19:00:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 31014 2015-11-10T19:00:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20668 2024-09-21T05:50:34.791905 application/rdf+xml 6646 2024-09-21T05:50:29.910024 image/jpeg 1655 2024-09-21T05:50:29.872935 image/jpeg 71057 2024-09-21T05:50:29.138938 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