Notes on Nightingale : the influence and legacy of a nursing icon

Author(s)

• Nelson, Sioban
• Rafferty, Anne Marie

Bibliographic Information

Notes on Nightingale : the influence and legacy of a nursing icon

edited by Sioban Nelson and Anne Marie Rafferty

（The culture and politics of health care work）

ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2010

• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Florence Nightingale remains an inspiration to nurses around the world for her pioneering work treating wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War; authorship of Notes on Nursing, the foundational text for nursing practice; establishment of the world's first nursing school; and advocacy for the hygienic treatment of patients and sanitary design of hospitals. In Notes on Nightingale, nursing historians and scholars offer their valuable reflections on Nightingale and analysis of her role in the profession a century after her death on 13 August 1910 and 150 years since the Nightingale School of Nursing (now the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King's College, London) opened its doors to probationers at St Thomas' Hospital. There is a great deal of controversy about Nightingale-opinions about her life and work range from blind worship to blanket denunciation. The question of Nightingale and her place in nursing history and in contemporary nursing discourse is a topic of continuing interest for nursing students, teachers, and professional associations. This book offers new scholarship on Nightingale's work in the Crimea and the British colonies and her connection to the emerging science of statistics, as well as valuable reevaluations of her evolving legacy and the surrounding myths, symbolism, and misconceptions. Contributors: Judith Godden, University of Sydney; Carol Helmstadter, RN (Toronto); Joan E. Lynaugh, University of Pennsylvania; M. Eileen Magnello, University College London; Lynn McDonald, University of Guelph; Sioban Nelson, University of Toronto; Anne Marie Rafferty, King's College, London; Rachel Verney, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (Visiting Associate, August 2009); Rosemary Wall, King's College, London

Table of Contents

Foreword by Rachel VerneyIntroduction by Sioban Nelson and Anne Marie Rafferty1. The Nightingale Imperative by Sioban Nelson2. Navigating the Political Straits in the Crimean War by Carol Helmstadter3. The Dream of Nursing the Empire by Judith Godden4. Rhetoric and Reality in America by Joan E. Lynaugh5. Mythologizing and De-mythologizing by Lynn McDonald6. The Passionate Statistician by M. Eileen Magnello7. An Icon and Iconoclast for Today by Anne Marie Rafferty and Rosemary WallNotes Contributors Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB05165268
• ISBN:
  • 9780801449062
• LCCN: 2010002266
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ithaca, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: 172 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RT37.N5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Influence
  • LCSH : Nursing -- Philosophy
  • MESH : Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
  • MESH : History of Nursing -- Biography
  • MESH : Education, Nursing -- history -- Biography
  • MESH : Philosophy, Nursing -- Biography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA73495440