Bücher von Florence Nightingale

Before she became the legendary "Lady with the Lamp" healing soldiers in the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale shattered conventions as a pioneering nurse and reformer. Her seminal work Notes on Nursing, published in 1860, distills over a decade of her transformative insights and methods. This profound volume remains essential reading for all in the healing professions.Caring for ill bodies and minds requires more than medicine alone, Nightingale admonishes. She illuminates the vital role of nutrition, sanitation, cleanliness, ventilation, warmth, and managing the patient's environment in facilitating healing. Nightingale overturns common neglect of these essentials with keen observations from years studying disease statistics and death rates in hospitals. Her analysis of deficiencies in existing care sparked sweeping reforms that drastically reduced preventable deaths.Far ahead of her time, Nightingale recognized the power of psychology in healing. She insisted nurturing hope and calm in patients is as important as physical care in aiding recovery. Her wisdom reached even to directions for home nursing and architectural design of hospitals. Principles that seem obvious now were revelatory when Notes on Nursing was first published.This landmark work brims with Nightingale's characteristic insight, conviction, and concise style. She marshals irrefutable evidence, pungent examples, and sharp wit to convince both caregivers and families to implement essential reforms. Undoubtedly abrasive to the old guard of her day, Nightingale's deep compassion shines through as she urges priority be given to improving patient outcomes through better care practices.Notes on Nursing exemplifies Florence Nightingale's groundbreaking work elevating nursing to a respected profession and noble calling. This volume captures her visionary ideas and poetic pragmatism that profoundly influenced medicine and society. Two centuries later, it remains powerful and transformative reading.

2023 Reprint of the 1946 U.S. Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In her introduction to the 1974 edition, Joan Quixley, then head of the Nightingale School of Nursing, wrote that despite the passage of time since Notes on Nursing was published, "the book astonishes one with its relevance to modern attitudes and skills in nursing, whether this be practiced at home by the 'ordinary woman', in hospital or in the community. The social, economic, and professional differences of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in no way hinder the young student or pupil from developing, if he or she is motivated to do so, its unchanged fundamentals by way of intelligent thought and practice". "With its mid-nineteenth century background of poverty, neglect, ignorance and prejudice the book was a challenge to contemporary views of nursing, of nurses and of the patient". "The book was the first of its kind ever to be written. It appeared at a time when the simple rules of health were only beginning to be known, when its topics were of vital importance not only for the well-being and recovery of patients, when hospitals were riddled with infection, when nurses were still mainly regarded as ignorant, uneducated persons. The book has, inevitably, its place in the history of nursing, for it was written by the founder of modern nursing". The book included advice and practices for the following areas: ventilation and warming health in houses petty management (how things are done by others when you must be away) noise variety (environment) taking food and what kinds of food bed and bedding light cleanliness of rooms personal cleanliness chattering hopes and advices (the false assurances and recommendations of family and friends to the sick) observation of the sick

Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859. It was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others. Florence Nightingale stressed that it was not meant to be a comprehensive guide from which to teach one's self to be a nurse but to help in the practice of treating others.In her introduction to the 1974 edition, Joan Quixley, then head of the Nightingale School of Nursing, wrote that despite the passage of time since Notes on Nursing was published, "the book astonishes one with its relevance to modern attitudes and skills in nursing, whether this be practised at home by the 'ordinary woman', in hospital or in the community. The social, economic and professional differences of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in no way hinder the young student or pupil from developing, if he or she is motivated to do so, its unchanged fundamentals by way of intelligent thought and practice". "With its mid-nineteenth century background of poverty, neglect, ignorance and prejudice the book was a challenge to contemporary views of nursing, of nurses and of the patient". "The book was the first of its kind ever to be written. It appeared at a time when the simple rules of health were only beginning to be known, when its topics were of vital importance not only for the well-being and recovery of patients, when hospitals were riddled with infection, when nurses were still mainly regarded as ignorant, uneducated persons. The book has, inevitably, its place in the history of nursing, for it was written by the founder of modern nursing".

Life or Death in India - A paper read at the meeting of the National Assocaition for the Promotion of Social Sciences, Norwich, 1873 ; with an appendix on life or death by irrigation, 1874 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1874.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Originally published: New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1898.

Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Nach der Rückkehr aus dem Krimkrieg veröffentlichte Florence Nightingale 1860 ihre 'Notes on Nursing', die sofort weltweites Aufsehen erregten. Eindringlich verficht sie aus ihrer Erfahrung heraus gewonnene Grundsätze guter Krankenpflege, die auch heute noch Vorbildcharakter haben. Im Gegensatz zu ihren Zeitgenossen betont sie, dass der Krankenpflege eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Versorgung des Patienten zukommt. Besonders wichtig ist ihr ein von Achtung geprägter Umgang mit dem Patienten, aber auch Ruhe, Ernährung, Licht und Sauberkeit. Das Buch ist eine Fundgrube für alle, die sich für die Entwicklung der Krankenpflege interessieren, und ebenso für den Unterricht in Krankenpflegeschulen und Pflegestudiengängen.In der vorliegenden Neuauflage wurden sowohl Quellen, Literatur und Links als auch der Forschungsstand aktualisiert und ergänzt.

Florence Nightingale To Her Nurses: A Selection From Miss Nightingale's Addresses To Probationers And Nurses Of The Nightingale School At St. Thomas's Hospital Edited, With Preface By Rosalind NashThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

Notes On Nursing: What It Is, And What It Is Not.This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!