Florence Nightingale: Extending Nursing

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Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing and to nurses is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to “look to the future, not to the past,” and often ignore her or rely on faulty secondary sources.

Volume 12 related the founding of her school at St Thomas’ Hospital and her guidance of its teaching for the rest of her life. Volume 13, Extending Nursing, relates the introduction of professional training and standards outside St Thomas’, beginning with London hospitals and others in Britain, followed by hospitals in Europe, America, Australia and Canada. Also presented is material on work in India, Japan and China. The challenge of raising standards in the tough workhouse infirmaries is reported, as is Nightingale’s fostering of district nursing. A chronology in this volume provides a convenient overview of Nightingales work on nursing from 1860 to 1900. Both volumes give biographical sketches of key nursing leaders.

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• History

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• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 07 avril 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9781554587469
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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F LORENCE N IGHTINGALE : E XTENDING N URSING
V OLUME 13 OF THE C OLLECTED W ORKS OF F LORENCE N IGHTINGALE
T HE C OLLECTED W ORKS OF F LORENCE N IGHTINGALE
L IST OF V OLUMES
Note: Short title denoted by bold.
Edited by Lynn McDonald, except as indicated.
Volume 1
Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family, 2001
Volume 2
Florence Nightingale s Spiritual Journey : Biblical Annotations, Sermons and Journal Notes, 2001
Volume 3
Florence Nightingale s Theology : Essays, Letters and Journal Notes, 2002
Volume 4
Florence Nightingale on Mysticism and Eastern Religions , ed. G rard Vall e, 2003
Volume 5
Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics , Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, 2003
Volume 6
Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care, 2004
Volume 7
Florence Nightingale s European Travels, 2004
Volume 8
Florence Nightingale on Women , Medicine, Midwifery and Prostitution, 2005
Volume 9
Florence Nightingale on Health in India , ed. G rard Vall e, 2006
Volume 10
Florence Nightingale on Social Change in India , ed. G rard Vall e, 2007
Volume 11
Florence Nightingale s Suggestions for Thought , 2008
Volume 12
Florence Nightingale: The Nightingale School, 2009
Volume 13
Florence Nightingale: Extending Nursing, 2009
Volume 14
Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War
Volume 15
Florence Nightingale on Wars and the War Office
Volume 16
Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform
F LORENCE N IGHTINGALE : E XTENDING N URSING
L YNN McD ONALD , EDITOR
V OLUME 13 OF THE C OLLECTED W ORKS OF F LORENCE N IGHTINGALE
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program for our publishing activities.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Florence Nightingale : extending nursing / Lynn McDonald, editor.
(Collected works of Florence Nightingale; v. 13)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available in electronic formats.
ISBN 978-0-88920-520-8 (bound)
1. Nurses - Training of - Great Britain - History - 19th century. 2. Nursing - Great Britain - History - 19th century. 3. Nurses - Training of - History - 19th century. 4. Nightingale Training School (London, England) - History. 5. Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. I. McDonald, Lynn, 1940- II. Title. III. Title: Extending nursing. IV. Series: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Collected works of Florence Nightingale; v. 13.
RT81.G7N54 2009 610.73094109 034 C2009-904702-0
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
Florence Nightingale [electronic resource] : extending nursing / Lynn McDonald, editor.
(Collected works of Florence Nightingale; v. 13)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic monograph available in PDF, XML and ePub formats. Also available in printed format.
ISBN 978-1-55458-170-2
1. Nurses - Training of - Great Britain - History - 19th century. 2. Nursing - Great Britain - History - 19th century. 3. Nurses - Training of - History - 19th century. 4. Nightingale Training School (London, England) - History. 5. Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910. I. McDonald, Lynn, 1940- II. Title. III. Title: Extending nursing. IV. Series: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Collected works of Florence Nightingale; v. 13.
RT81.G7N54 2009a 610.73094109 034
2009 Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Cover design by Leslie Macredie. Front cover image: Photograph of Florence Nightingale courtesy of Wellcome Library, London. Front flap: A recent statue of Nightingale nurse Ella Pirrie, matron of the Belfast Workhouse Infirmary, on the premises of the present Belfast City Hospital. Photograph courtesy of Ross McDonald. Back cover image: Florence Nightingale with Sir Harry Verney at Claydon House. Photograph courtesy of Wellcome Library, London. Back flap: Detail of the Ella Pirrie statue on front flap. Pirrie is holding a letter from Nightingale.
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C ONTENTS
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Dramatis Personae
Florence Nightingale: A Pr cis of Her Life
An Introduction to Volume 13
Nightingale s Approach to Nursing
Nightingale s Influence on Nursing
The Secondary Literature on Nightingale s Nursing
Chrolology of Nightingale s Work on Nursing
Key to Editing
Extending Nightingale Nursing in Hospitals
London Hospitals
St Bartholomew s
St Mary s Hospital, Paddington
(Royal) London Hospital, Whitechapel
Guy s Hospital
Eastern Hospital, Homerton
Hospitals in Southern England
Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford
Midlands and the North
Liverpool
Buxton Hospital
Scottish Hospitals
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Other Scottish Hospitals
Irish Hospitals
Australian Hospitals
European Hospitals
American Hospitals
Canadian Hospitals
Other Countries
Retrospective on Extending Nursing in Hospitals
Nursing in Workhouse Infirmaries
Jane Senior, First Woman Poor Law Inspector
Workhouse Nursing in Ireland
District Nursing
Training Nurses for the Sick Poor, 1876
The Queen s Jubilee Nursing Institute
Introduction to Rathbone s History of District Nursing
Correspondence with Amy Hughes
Extending District Nursing in Britain
Extending District Nursing Outside Britain
Rural Health Visitors, Health Missioners
Last Work on District Nursing
Appendix A: Biographical Sketches
Florence (Lees) Craven
Frances Elizabeth Spencer
Elizabeth Vincent
Rachel Williams, Later Norris
Alice Fisher
Jane Elizabeth Styring
Mary Juliana Pyne
Amy Sarah Hughes
Eva Charlotte L ckes
Katharine Isabella Perss
Flora Masson
Bibliography
Index
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
Acknowledgments are due first of all to the Henry Bonham Carter Will Trust for permission to publish Nightingale original manuscripts, and indeed for treating Nightingale material generally as being in the public domain. To the owners of Nightingale manuscripts thanks are due for their important role in conservation, for permitting scholarly access and for permitting copies to be made for this Collected Works .
Many people worked on the preparation of the texts. Thanks are due to transcribers: Gwyneth Watkins, Arun Dhanota and Victoria Rea; to volunteer proofreaders: Patricia Warwick, Mary Boyce, Antonia Butler and the late Cherry Ambrose. Thanks to Patricia Warwick also for assistance with visuals, to Victoria Rea for work on the Probationers Registers, to Dr Anna Louise Penner for verification assistance in Boston and to Pat Paskiewicz for material on Florence Nightingale Shore.
Archivists and librarians around the world provided skilled assistance, often beyond the call of duty. The St Thomas Hospital records and Nightingale Fund minute book, owned by the Florence Nightingale Museum (at the London Metropolitan Archives) were used extensively for the identification of nurses and their hospitals.
At the Press thanks are due to Dr Brian Henderson, director; Rob Kohlmeier, managing editor; Doreen Armbruster, typesetter; Leslie Macreadie and Penelope Grows, marketing; Heather Blain-Yanke, production and editorial projects manager; Catharine Bonas Taylor, illustrations; and Lisa Quinn, peer review. The copy editing was done by Kristen Peterson Chew. Acknowledgments for photographs and other illustrations are given where they appear. Thanks to the anonymous peer reviewers for helpful comments.
In spite of the assistance of so many people undoubtedly errors remain, which are the responsibility of the editor. I would be grateful for notification of any errors, and for information on missing identifications. Corrections will be made in the electronic text and any other later print publications.
Lynn McDonald
L IST OF I LLUSTRATIONS
Florence Nightingale at work, p x.
Ella Pirrie, first trained matron of the Belfast Workhouse Infirmary, with a letter of encouragement from Nightingale, p 576.
Nightingale handwritten letter, pp 917-20.
Illustrations facing page 658.
1. Florence Nightingale with Sir Harry Verney at Claydon House.
2. The Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as it was when Nightingale nursing began there in 1872.
3. The new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, opened in 1879 and in use until 2003.
4. Angelique Lucille Pringle and Frances E. Spencer, the first two trained matrons at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
5. Florence Lees, leader of district nursing.
6. Agnes Elizabeth Jones, pioneering superinte