Building a New Nursing Service: Respectability and Efficiency in Victorian England
Building a New Nursing Service: Respectability and Efficiency in Victorian England
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United States: Appalachian State University
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United States: Appalachian State University
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The main problem in staffing military hospitals with female nurses, Florence Nightingale explained in 1857, was to find “respectable and efficient women” who would be willing to undertake such work. Many women would apply for the positions but few would be acceptable. “Many a woman who will make a respectable and efficient Assistant-Nurse [the equi...
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Building a New Nursing Service: Respectability and Efficiency in Victorian England
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_66718262
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_66718262
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0095-1390
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2326-1242
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10.2307/4054296
