...meant to give hints for thought to those who have personal charge of the health of others. Every-day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or, in other words, of how to put the constitution ID Mich a state as that it will have no disease or that it can recover from disease, is recognized...

...it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It is recognized as the knowledge which everyone ought to have—distinct from medical knowledge, which only a profession can have. If, then, every woman must at some time or another of her life become a nurse, ie, have charge of somebody's...

...what nursing is. In 1860, Nightingale described nursing as "putting the constitution in such a state that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease." Today, the scope of nursing is regarded as that of health care, in the broad sense, as opposed to strictly...

...in Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not (3). She wrote that the knowledge of nursing was "how to put the constitution in such a state as that...have no disease, or that it can recover from disease" (3). It was her belief that health nursing involved "charge of the personal health of somebody, whether...

...personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid; in other words every woman is a nurse. Everyday sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or...higher place. It is recognized as the knowledge, which everyone ought to have—distinct from medical knowledge—which only a profession can have. If, then,...

...has in charge somebody's health, whether perfect or impaired. The office of a nurse, in this view, is "to put the constitution in such a state as that it...no disease, or that it can recover from disease." (Preface.)... "True nursing ignores infection, except to prevent it." And Miss Nightingale, being a...