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This is a study based on research into the records of the Nightingale Fund and how it was used to finance various experiments in nursing and midwifery training in the nineteenth century. It traces the development of nurse training and discusses the problems that beset a fledgling profession.

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The Nightingale Fund; founding the Nightingale school; St Thomas's Hospital moves to Surrey Gardens; training midwifery nurses; poor law nursing; nursing in military hospitals; district nursing; the Nightingale School moves to Lambeth; the Nightingale Training School, 1875-1890; the Fund Council and nursing politics; the Nightingale legacy at the beginning of the 20th century.

Florence Nightingale and the Nursing Legacy

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    A Paperback / softback by Monica Baly

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: 15/10/1997
      ISBN13: 9781861560445, 978-1861560445
      ISBN10: 1861560443
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      History of medicine Nursing

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is a study based on research into the records of the Nightingale Fund and how it was used to finance various experiments in nursing and midwifery training in the nineteenth century. It traces the development of nurse training and discusses the problems that beset a fledgling profession.

      Table of Contents
      The Nightingale Fund; founding the Nightingale school; St Thomas's Hospital moves to Surrey Gardens; training midwifery nurses; poor law nursing; nursing in military hospitals; district nursing; the Nightingale School moves to Lambeth; the Nightingale Training School, 1875-1890; the Fund Council and nursing politics; the Nightingale legacy at the beginning of the 20th century.

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