...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 of medicines and the application of poultices. h ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, w armth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper...

...and wounded cannot be estimated, and it has extended throughout the world. According to her, nursing ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the selection and administration of the proper diet—all at the least expense of vital force to the patient....

...teacher of international fame. She says: " I take 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." " The very elements of good nursing are as little...

...Nightingale claimed that she used the word "nursing for want of a better." In her view nursing previously had "been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices." She taught that, "It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet,...

...from her treatise “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...proper selection and administration of diet—all at the least expense of the vital power to the patient. (Nightingale, 1969, p. 8) As the industry moves...

...battlefields and in the cities of newly industrialized England. She complained that the term nursing has been limited to signify little more than the administration...quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet, all at the least expense of vital power to the patient. 2 Her message was for nurses to have...

...interpret the mass of information available to them. In 1859 Florence Nightingale said that nursing “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.” 3 Although the science base for our practice...

...seem not to be a new phenomenon; indeed, Nightingale (1859) commented that the word nursing '... has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices' whereas she clearly recognized that by manipulating the environment - the air, the temperature, the...

...the 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...air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet and the proper /choosing and giving 23 / of diet—all at the least expense of vital power to the patient. It has...

...medicines and the like, but served as a positive force in treating the patient. Nursing, she wrote, “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.” But Nightingale's influence extended well beyond...