florence nightingale: the mother of nursing

Florence Nightingale: The Mother of Nursing

1Medical-Surgical Department, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran 2Trauma Nursing Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Hosein Karimi, Medical-Surgical Department, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran. Tel: +98-3615550021, Fax: +98-361...

Florence Nightingale and the nursing legacy

Since the history of British legal medicine is uncharted, let alone the subject of definitive studies, to attempt a synthesis is a bold step. The range of potential subject matter and sources is so vast and ill-defined that any historian will confront dilemmas. Forbes attempts to cut through them to provide what he himselfcalls the first "chronicle" ofthe topic. He does this by extracting "medi...

Florence Nightingale

MARCEL FLORKIN, A history ofbiochemistry. Part III. History ofthe identification ofthe sources offree energy in organisms, Amsterdam, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1975, 8vo, pp. [xxi], 475, illus., Dfl. 130.00. ($54.25). Professor Florkin and Professor Elmer H. Stotz are editors of Comprehensive biochemistry, a 33-volume work still being published. This is volume 31 and the second of fou...

Florence Nightingale and the early origins of evidence-based nursing.

Florence Nightingale is now a much ignored historical figure. The publication of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale by Wilfred Laurier University Press, beginning in 2001, will outline her enormous contribution not only to the foundation of the nursing profession but also to the establishment of a public healthcare system. The Collected Works will include her published works and many u...

Conference 2014 Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery Research

Florence Nightingale on hospital reform

chapter on "men, honour and crimes of passion" neatly sets off stereotypes of male behaviour against those of female. These pages contain the main finding of the book, that psychiatric testimony was usually "based on determinist theories of neurophysiology, disinhibition and hereditarian degeneration, which almost always stressed some aspect of the hysterical disorder and linked a portrait of i...