Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Reviewers -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Share Florence Nightingale, Nursing, and Health Care Today -- Part I: Nightingale’s Nursing: Then and Now -- Chapter 1: Florence Nightingale: The Challenge, the Impact -- Why a New Book Now -- Who was Nightingale and What was Her Nursing? -- The New Profession of Patient Care -- Gender Issues in Nursing -- Nurse–Physician Relations -- Nightingale’s Mentoring of Nurses -- Nightingale’s Reputation: Highs, Lows, and Misconceptions -- From Nightingale’s Vision to Nursing Today -- Nightingale’s Link to American Nursing -- An Overview of Chapters -- What this Book is Not About -- References -- Appendix: The Attack on Nightingale’s Reputation -- Chapter 2: Nursing: The New Profession of Patient Care -- The Case for a Profession of Nursing -- Disease as a "Restorative” Process -- The Biophysical Environment Needed to Restore Health -- Cleanliness and Disinfectants -- “Heroic Medicine,” “Bad Medicine” -- Midwifery Nursing -- Army Nursing -- Aftercare—Convalescence -- District Nursing, Home Visiting, Community Nursing -- Nightingale as “Nurse Practitioner” -- References -- Chapter 3: Health Promotion -- Nightingale’s Definition of Health -- International Endeavors on Health Promotion -- Social/Environmental Determinants of Health -- Improving Nutrition in the Army and in Hospitals -- Nightingale’s Optimism on Disease Prevention -- Disease Prevention: Setting Priorities for Today -- Occupational Health and Safety -- Nightingale’s Environmentalism -- References -- Chapter 4: Ethics -- Ethical Challenges in the New Profession -- Ethical Issues at the Nightingale School -- Preventing Patient Abuse -- The Development of Formal Codes of Ethics -- From “Intelligent Obedience” to Licensing Standards -- Ethics and Proselytizing Religious Beliefs -- New Ethical and Legal Challenges -- References -- Chapter 5: Infection Control -- Infectious Diseases in Crimean War Hospitals -- Infectious Diseases in Civil Hospitals -- Better Hospital Design -- Increasing Precautions for Infection Control -- Midwifery Nursing and Maternal Mortality -- Infection Control Now -- References -- Chapter 6: Pediatric Nursing -- Nightingale’s Own Experience of Giving Care to Children -- The Special Vulnerability of Children -- The Case for and Against Children’s Hospitals -- Special Requirements for Pediatric Nursing -- Other Institutional Care of Children -- Disease Prevention for Children -- References -- Chapter 7: Long-Term and Palliative Care -- Challenging the “Incurable” Concept -- Long-Term Care, “Incurables,” and Convalescents -- Nightingale’s Own Experience of Giving Palliative Care -- Applying Nightingale’s Example and Advice Today -- References -- Chapter 8: Administration -- Nightingale’s Experience of Administration -- Training for Administration -- Mentoring Major Nurse Administrators -- Failures in Administration in Military Nursing -- The Mid-Staffordshire Hospital Scandal -- Applying Nightingale’s Principles on Administration Today -- References -- Chapter 9: Research and Policy Development -- Good Research: The Foundation for Policy -- The Nightingale Method -- “Ways of Knowing” and Scientific Method -- Applying Nightingale Principles to Current Challenges -- Final Observations and Reflection -- References -- Part II: In Nightingale’s Own Words -- Chapter 10: Nightingale’s Early Writing on Hospitals and Nursing -- First Edition of Notes on Hospitals, 1858 -- Sixteen Sanitary Defects in the Construction of Hospital Wards -- Notes on Nursing, 1860 -- References -- Chapter 11: Nightingale’s Writing on Nursing for the Poorest -- Brief to a Parliamentary Committee, 1867 -- Tribute to Agnes Jones, “Una and the Lion,” 1868 -- Fund-Raising for District Nursing, 1876 -- References -- Chapter 12: Nightingale’s Late Writing on Nursing, Hospitals, and Disease Prevention -- Hospitals and Patients, 1880 -- Dictionary of Medicine Articles on Nurse Training and Hospital Nursing, 1883 -- Scavenge, Scavenge, Scavenge, the New York Herald, 1884 -- Sick Nursing and Health Nursing, World Congress, Chicago, 1893 -- References -- Appendix: Timeline—Nightingale’s Nursing and Health Care and Its Influence -- Events of the Crimean War -- From the Opening of Her School -- Nightingale’s Influence after Her Death to the End of the 20th Century -- Nightingale’s Influence in the 21st Century -- References -- Index -- .
