NURSING BEFORE NIGHTINGALE, 1815

NURSING BEFORE NIGHTINGALE, 1815-1899
NURSING BEFORE NIGHTINGALE, 1815-1899
Book Category:
Medical > Nursing > General
Author:
Carol Helmstadter and Judith Godden
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9781409423133
Price:
119.95
Publication Year:
2011

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Ashgate Publishing Company.

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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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