Notes on Nightingale : : The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon /

Notes on Nightingale : : The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon / / ed. by Anne Marie Rafferty, Sioban Nelson.

Florence Nightingale remains an inspiration to nurses around the world for her pioneering work treating wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War; authorship of Notes on Nursing, the foundational text for nursing practice; establishment of the world's first nursing school; and advocacy fo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Godden, Judith,
Helmstadter, Carol,
Lynaugh, Joan E.,
Magnello, M. Eileen,
Mcdonald, Lynn,
Nelson, Sioban,
Rafferty, Anne Marie,
Verney, Rachel,
Wall, Rosemary,
HerausgeberIn:
Nelson, Sioban,
Rafferty, Anne Marie,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 1 halftone, 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. The Nightingale Imperative
  • 2. Navigating the Political Straits in the Crimean War
  • 3. The Dream of Nursing the Empire
  • 4. Rhetoric and Reality in America
  • 5. Mythologizing and De-mythologizing
  • 6. The Passionate Statistician
  • 7. An Icon and Iconoclast for Today
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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