Medical Management & Leadership
Florence Nightingale, Nursing, and Health Care Today
- Publisher
- Springer Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2017
- Category
- Management & Leadership, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780826155580
- Publish Date
- Dec 2017
- List Price
- $80.5
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Description
Contributes new insights to Nightingale's relevance for nursing today
This in-depth analysis of Nightingale's legacy goes beyond established scholarship to examine her lesser known--and arguably even more important--writings beyondNotes on Nursing. The book demonstrates afresh her unparalleled and ongoing influence on professional nursing, on the core concepts of health, disease, and access to care as we understand them today. It introduces readers to the "real" Florence Nightingale - who pioneered evidence-based health care, campaigned for hospital safety, promoted economic opportunities for women, and mentored two generations of nursing leaders.
The first part of the book focuses on Nightingale's core nursing concepts: gender and women's issues, education, health promotion, infection control, professional ethics, pediatrics, and palliative care, and how they have transcended time to influence professional nursing today. The author draws on comments from current nursing and medical literature to demonstrate the ongoing relevance of Nightingale's work. In the second part of the book, the author presents key writings by Nightingale, including the little-known background work that shaped her iconic Notes on Nursing. It goes on to cover key later writings, which show how her ideas evolved with advances in medical science and nursing practice.
Key Features:
- Expands on established scholarship to reveal Nightingale's contributions to theory, science, and policy in greater breadth and depth
- Demonstrates the remarkable relevance of her work to nursing issues today
- Nightingale's core nursing concepts of health promotion, disease prevention, and access to care
- Disseminates Nightingale writing especially relevant to nursing leaders and policy advocates.
About the author
Lynn McDonald is a professor of sociology at the University of Guelph, Ontario. She is a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Canada’s largest women’s organization. As a Member of Parliament (the first “Ms” in the House of Commons), her Non-smokers Health Act made Parliamentary history as a private member’s bill, and made Canada a world leader in the “tobacco wars.” She is the author of The Early Origins of the Social Sciences (1993), and The Women Founders of the Social Sciences (1994) and editor of Women Theorists on Society and Politics (WLU Press, 1998), all of which have significant sections on Florence Nightingale.
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