...the interconnection between persons, their environment, and health (Dunphy, 2001). For her, 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" (Nightingale, 1859/1992, p. 6). In her view, the...

...duties thus resembled those of an efficient middle-class housekeeper. Nursing, writes Nightingale, "ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light,...quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet." And because a patient's spiritual well-being was at least as important as his or her physical...

...for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicine and the application of poultices. It ought to signify...quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet—at the least expense of vital power to the patient." 4 Such was her credo for the school she...

...in Notes on Nursing (1859/1992) noted that people in her day often thought of nursing as signifying "little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices" (p. 6). Efforts are still necessary to convey the full scope of nursing practice to other professionals...

...¡я comprised in this essential to invalid and doctor : Florence Nightingale says of nursing: "It 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." Dr. S. Weir Mitchell remarks : "Many...

...but unknown ;" and if her definition of nursing be accepted,Jthe statement is not so very odd; and "it ought to signify the proper use of fresh air,...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...