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100 1 $aNightingale, Florence,$d1820-1910,$eauthor.
245 10 $aFlorence Nightingale and hospital reform$h[electronic resource] /$cLynn McDonald, editor.
260 $e(Baltimore, Md. :$fProject MUSE,$g2013)
300 $a1 online resource (1 PDF (xiv, 974 pages) :)$billustrations.
490 1 $aCollected works of Florence Nightingale ;$vv. 16
500 $aIssued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAcknowledgments -- Dramatis personae -- List of illustrations -- Florence Nightingale : a precis of her life -- An introduction to volume 16 -- Key to editing -- Notes on hospitals -- Military hospitals : letters, notes, articles and reports -- Civil hospitals : letters and notes -- Appendix A. Biographical sketches -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 $aFlorence Nightingale began working on hospital reform even before she founded her famous school of nursing; hospitals were dangerous places for nurses as well as patients, and they urgently needed fundamental reform. She continued to work on safer hospital design, location, and materials to the end of her working life, advising on plans for children's, general, military, and convalescent hospitals and workhouse infirmaries. Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform, the final volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, includes her influential Notes on Hospitals, with its much-quoted musing on the need of a Hippocratic oath for hospitals--namely, that first they should do the sick no harm. Nightingale's anonymous articles on hospital design are printed here also, as are later encyclopedia entries on hospitals. Correspondence with architects, engineers, doctors, philanthropists, local notables, and politicians is included. The results of these letters, some with detailed critiques of hospital plans, can be seen initially in the great British examples of the new "pavilion" design--at St. Thomas', London (a civil hospital), at the Herbert Hospital (military), and later at many hospitals throughout the UK and internationally. Nightingale's insistence on keeping good statistics to track rates of mortality and hospital stays, and on using them to compare hospitals, can be seen as good advice for today, given the new versions of "hospital-acquired infections" she combatted.
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650 12 $aHospitals, Public$xhistory$zGreat Britain.
650 12 $aHospitals, Military$xhistory$zGreat Britain.
650 12 $aHospital Design and Construction$xhistory$zGreat Britain.
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650 0 $aNurses$xHealth and hygiene$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
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700 1 $aMcDonald, Lynn,$d1940-$eeditor.
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