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100 1 _aNightingale, Florence,
_d1820-1910
245 1 0 _aWorkhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2015
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2015-11-11
508 _aProduced by MWS, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment by Nightingale and Rathbone" is a historical account written during the mid-19th century. This book documents the pioneering initiatives taken by the Select Vestry of Liverpool to reform nursing practices in workhouse infirmaries by introducing trained nurses, highlighting the need for better care for the sick poor. The text focuses on the substantial improvements resulting from these reforms and provides insights into the necessary changes in how sick patients in workhouses were cared for, indicating a significant shift in social attitudes and nursing standards of that era. The narrative outlines the processes and considerations behind implementing trained nursing staff into the male wards of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary. It begins with the identification of inadequacies in the existing nursing system, which primarily relied on untrained pauper nurses. The text features correspondences from prominent figures such as Florence Nightingale, emphasizing the importance of skilled nursing, and details the trials and subsequent successes of employing qualified nurses. Through careful observation and assessment, the work describes the transformative impact on patient care quality, operational improvements, and the broader implications for policymaking in public health during a time when the welfare of the poor was a crucial issue faced by society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aNursing
653 _aPoor -- Medical care
700 1 _aRathbone, William,
_d1819-1902
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50432
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