Notes on Nightingale
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2019

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 th