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 Notes on nursing - Page 8by Florence Nightingale - 1860 - 140 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Florence Nightingale - Nursing - 1861 - 96 pages
...the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing. 1 use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration...light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper choosing and giving of diet—all at the least expense of vital power to the patient. It has been said... | |
 | Medical - 1860
...think appropriate. " What nursing ought to be.—I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration...ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, waraith, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet—all at the least... | |
 | 1861
...that she very properly uses the term in a more extended meaning than many dream of. She says that " it ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light,...proper selection and administration of diet—all at the least expense of vital power to the patient." It is only in exceptional circumstances that all... | |
 | William Fleming Stevenson - 1873 - 411 pages
...but unknown;" and if her definition of nursing be accepted, the statement is not so very odd; and " it ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light,...proper selection and administration of diet—all at the least expense of vital power to the patient." There are many burning to work, but irresolute... | |
 | Clinton S. Halsey, George E. Halsey - Health & Fitness - 1885 - 344 pages
...but he must be called. He may be called too late." NOTES ON NUR8ING. BY FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. NURSING ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light,...quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet, all at the least expense of vital power to the patient. PURE AIR.—The very first canon of nursing—the... | |
 | Health & Fitness - 1886
...well to consider not only its true significance and meaning, but the "duties of the nurse." "It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of NOTE.—This is the lust public lecture delivered by the late Professor Guernsey. Just before his fatal... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1894 - 361 pages
...fault not of the disease, but of the nursing. "I use the word 'nursing' for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration...fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the selection and administration of diet—all at the least expense of vital povver to the patient. " It... | |
 | Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lavinia L. Dock - 1907
...fault, not of the disease, but of the nursing. I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration...proper selection and administration of diet—all at the least expense of vital power to the patient. It has been said and written scores of times that... | |
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