Florence Nightingale and the early origins of evidence-based nursing.

نویسنده

  • L McDonald
چکیده

Florence Nightingale is now a much ignored historical figure. The publication of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale by Wilfred Laurier University Press, beginning in 2001, will outline her enormous contribution not only to the foundation of the nursing profession but also to the establishment of a public healthcare system. The Collected Works will include her published works and many unpublished letters and notes. Not the least of the areas where quite a new Nightingale will appear is in evidence-based nursing, a term that was not in use in her day, but a concept central to her own theory of nursing and health care.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Evidence-based nursing

دوره 4 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2001