
NURSING BEFORE NIGHTINGALE, 1815-1899 |
Book Category:
Medical > Nursing > General
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Author:
Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9781409423133
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Price:
119.95
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Publication Year:
2011
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Publisher Info
Ashgate Publishing Company. InquiryBook Description
1890s. From the nineteenth century on historians have considered Florence Nightingale, with her training school established at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1860, the founder of modern nursing. This book investigates two major earlier reforms in nursing: a doctor-driven reform which came to be called the 'ward system,' and the reforms of the Anglican Sisters, known as the 'central system' of nursing. Rather than being the beginning of nursing reform, Nightingale nursing was the culmination of these two earlier reforms.
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