"NOTES ON NURSING."

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14010, 5 April 1911, Page 3

"NOTES ON NURSING."

(By Florence Nightingale.) PREFACE. 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 char_e of tho health of others. Every woman —or, at least, almost every woman —in England has, at ono time or another of her life, charge of the personal health of somebody, whether child or invalid —in other words, every woman is a nurse. Every day sanitary knowledge, or the knowledge of nursing, or. in other words, of how to put the constitution in such a stato that it will have no disease, or that it can recover from disease, takes a higher place. It is recognised as the knowledge which everyone ou_ht to have distinct from medical knowledge, which only a professional can have.

If, then, every woman must, at somo time or other of her life, become a nurse—i.e.., have ■ charge of somebody's health, how immense and how valuable would be the produce of her united experience if every woman would think how to nurse!

I do not pretend to teach her now: I ask her to teach .herself, and for this purpose' I - venture to give her some hints.