Notes on Nursing

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Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859.  Florence Nightingale stressed that it was not meant to be a comprehensive.

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’.