Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not

Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is not
By Florence Nightingale

Contents

Ventilation and Warming
Health of Houses
Petty Management
Noise
Variety
Taking Food
What Food?
Bed and Bedding
Light
Cleanliness of Rooms and Walls
Personal Cleanliness
Chattering Hopes and Advices
Observation of the Sick

Preface

The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply...