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 —... Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not - Page 8by Florence Nightingale - 1898 - 140 pagesFull view - About this book
| National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1862 - 898 pages
...generally to be found at the bedsides of the poor. Miss Nightingale tells us what nursing is: — "It has been limited to signify little more than the administration...the least expense of vital power to the patient." Now there is a lamentable ignorance on these subjects among the poor iu general, and the nurses know... | |
| 1860 - 684 pages
...in the administration of diet, or each or all of these. The proper use of each and all of these, — the proper selection and administration of diet, —...at the least expense of vital power to the patient, is what Miss Nightingale understands by the term " Nursing." Under the head of Ventilation and Warming,... | |
| 1861 - 606 pages
...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,...the least expense of vital power to the patient." It is only in exceptional circumstances that all this can be learnt properly at home ; and if it is... | |
| William Fleming Stevenson - Christian communities - 1877 - 428 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,...quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet—all at the least expense of vital power to the patient." There are many burning to work, but... | |
| Clinton S. Halsey, George E. Halsey - Homeopathic veterinary medicine - 1885 - 390 pages
...but he must be called. He may be called too late." NOTES ON NURSING. BY FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. NURSING ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light,...at the least expense of vital power to the patient. PURE AIR. — The very first canon of nursing — the first and last thing upon which a nurse's attention... | |
| Homeopathy - 1886 - 978 pages
...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 last public lecture delivered by the late Professor Guernsey. Just before his... | |
| Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts - Charities - 1893 - 534 pages
...use of fresh air (ventilation), light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper choosing and giving of diet, all at the least expense of vital power to the sick. And so health-at-home nursing means exactly the same proper use of the same natural elements,... | |
| John Shaw Billings, Henry Mills Hurd - Dispensaries - 1894 - 856 pages
...use of fresh air (ventilation), light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper choosing and giving of diet, all at the least expense of vital power to the sick. And so health-at-home nursing means exactly the same proper use of the same natural elements,... | |
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