Family Health Nursing – A European Perspective

Journal Title: Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine - Year 2013, Vol 20, Issue 4

Abstract

Florence Nightingale, while formulating her concept of nursing mentioned, among nurses’ tasks, the popularization of personal hygiene and hygiene of surroundings in workers’ environments, as well as teaching baby care to mothers. The performance of these tasks required cooperation with the families, and at that time, such a cooperation was postulated by William Rathbone (1819–1902). According to him, to the tasks of a nurse providing home care for a patient also belong assistance to the family in the area of hygiene and health care.

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Mirosław J. Jarosz , Anna Włoszczak-Szubzda

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Mirosław J. Jarosz, Anna Włoszczak-Szubzda (2013). Family Health Nursing – A European Perspective. Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 20(4), 643-644. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-80678