No not one it has been slept in every night from the best known work of florence nightingale 1820 1910 the originator and founder of modern nursing comes a collection of notes that played an important part in the much needed revolution in the field of nursing. Notes on nursing what it is and what it is not dover books on biology kindle edition by nightingale florence download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading notes on nursing what it is and what it is not dover books on biology. Notes on nursing what it is and what it is not is a book first published by florence nightingale in 1859 a 76 page volume with 3 page appendix published by harrison of pall mall it was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others florence nightingale stressed that it was not meant to be a comprehensive guide from which to teach ones self to be a nurse but . Notes on nursing published in 1860 by florence nightingale 1820 1910 is the most famous publication in the history of nursing defining nursing as helping the patient to live nightingale introduced the modern standards of training and esprit de corps and early grasped the idea that diseases are not separate entities which must exist like cats and dogs but altered conditions . The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse they are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others every day sanitary knowledge or the knowledge of nursing or in other words of how to put the constitution in such a