Notes on hospitals / by Florence Nightingale.

  • Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Notes on hospitals / by Florence Nightingale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i8r APPENDIX. ON DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF HOSPITAL NURSING. In the important question of accommodation for nurses, so much de- pends upon the method of nursing chosen, that an Appendix is devoteil to this. The methods of nursing the sick adopted in the public hospitals ol Europe may be distinguished under five classes :— 1. Where the nurses belong to a religious order, and are under their own spiritual head ; the hospital being administered by a separate and secular governing body. Examples.—The hospitals of Paris, of King's College Hospital, London. 2. Where the nurses are of a religious order, the head of which administers both order and hospital. Examples.—The Protestant institutions of Bethanien at Berlin, Kaiserswerth on the Rhine, many Roman Catholic institutions at Rome and all over Europe, also Anglican sisterhoods at liome. 3. Where the nurses are secular under their own headj the hospital having its own separate and secular government. Example.—The hospitals of London. 4. Where the nurses are secular; and under the same secular autno- rity as that by whicli the hospital where they nurse is governed. Exajnples.—The great general hospital at Vienna, the Charite at Berlin. 5. Where the nurses are all men and seculars, and under the same secular male authority as the hospital. Example.—The military hospitals of Germany, and till a recent period of England,* France, and Russia. * With regard to English army hospitals, this odious system of autocracy is done away with in a two-falJ sense, both in regimental hospitals where female nursing is not (and cannot