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Common terms and phrasesarrowroot attention beef tea better body breathing called carbonic acid cause clean cleanliness close cold damp death delirium tremens diarrhoea diet dirty disease doctor door dust effect effluvia English patient erysipelas especially fact fancies fever foul air fresh air friends give gynaecology hospital ical injury keep kind known leading questions least less light look matter meals means measles medicine milk minute Mount Blanc musty necessary ness never think night noise nourishment nurse nurse's observation painful patient's room perhaps person in charge physician poison private house pyaemia question reparative process room or ward sanitary saturated scarlet fever scorbutic scrofula seen servants sewer shut sick person sick room skin sleep small-pox smell speak suffering surgical taking food teach tell things thought tient tion utensil ventilation wall weak patients woman women Popular passagesPage 8 - It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet — all at the least expense of vital power to the patient. Page 63 - EVERY careful observer of the sick will agree in this, that thousands of patients are annually starved in the midst of plenty, from want of attention to the ways which alone make it possible for them to take food. Page 9 - The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick. Page 32 - ... pair of dogs), and that small-pox would not begin itself any more than a new dog would begin without there having been a parent dog. " Since then I have seen with my eyes and smelt with my nose small-pox growing up in first specimens, either in close rooms or... Page 144 - Edited by JAMES C. WILSON, MD, Professor of the Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Page 45 - If it is a whispered conversation in the same room, then it is absolutely cruel ; for it is impossible that the patient's attention should not be involuntarily strained to hear. Walking on tip-toe, doing anything in the room very slowly, are injurious, for exactly the same reasons. Page 19 - Another extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air. What air can we breathe at night but night air? The choice is between pure night air from without and foul night air from within. Page 84 - It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick, that second only to their need of fresh air is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room, and that it is not only light, but direct sunlight they want. Page 27 - If a neighbour's child is seized with small-pox, the first question which occurs is whether it had been vaccinated. No one would undervalue vaccination ; but it becomes of doubtful benefit to society when it leads people to look abroad for the source of evils which exist at home. Page 62 - Believe me, almost any sick person, who behaves decently well, exercises more self-control every moment of his day than you will ever know till you are sick yourself. Almost every step that crosses his room is painful to him; almost every thought that... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarHealth is empowerment.Patricia S Jones, Afaf I Meleis - 1993 - Advances in Nursing Science Holding sacred space: The nurse as healing environment.Janet F Quinn - 1992 - Holistic Nursing Practice Development Of Theory: A Requisite for Nursing as a Primary Health ...Dorothy E Johnson - 1974 - Nursing Research Men in nursing: issues of gender segregation and hidden advantage ...J Evans - 1997 - J Adv Nurs References from web pagesNotes on Nursing: What it is, what it is not. NURSING Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Women's History Notes on Nursing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia SNJ - Notes on Nursing - Preface and Intro Jennifer Shaddock - Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing as ... JSTOR: Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing Science Links Japan | "The Art of Nursing" by Florence Nightingale ... Internet Archive: Details: Notes on nursing : what it is, and what ... Bibliographic information
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