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Notes on Nursing

Also known as Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not

A work by Florence Nightingale, first published in 1859

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Almost every woman at some time has charge of someone's health, so every woman is a nurse, When a patient is cold, feverish, faint, sick after food or has a bedsore, it is generally the fault of the nursing, not the disease, Nursing should mean the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet and diet, not just giving medicines …

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  • Connections

    Florence Nightingale

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Key facts

First published
18592
Edition korrents quotes
1859; Appleton edition3
Claims on korrents
81

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Almost every woman at some time has charge of someone's health, so every woman is a nurse (opens korrents.com)1

  2. When a patient is cold, feverish, faint, sick after food or has a bedsore, it is generally the fault of the nursing, not the disease (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Nursing should mean the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet and diet, not just giving medicines (opens korrents.com)1

  4. The first rule of nursing is to keep the air a patient breathes as pure as the outside air without chilling him (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting and fear of surprise harm a patient more than any exertion (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Unnecessary noise is the cruellest absence of care that can be inflicted on the sick or the well (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Written by

  • Florence Nightingale

Sources

  1. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (1859; Appleton edition) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Notes on Nursing, Q4352893 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not (1859; Appleton edition) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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