A Hundred Years of District Nursing

Name: A Hundred Years of District Nursing
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

A Hundred Years of District NursingAuthor(s): Mary Stocks\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032894225, 978-1032894225\nSynopsis\nOriginally published in 1960, this is a graphic and humorous story of district nursing from its beginning, with the first nurse engaged to work in the slums of nineteenth-century Liverpool, up to the time of publication. Mrs Stocks records how our nurse had been and still was a familiar and beloved figure in busy cities and remote rural areas throughout the United Kingdom and was rapidly assuming a similar position in many other parts of the world.\n\nWilliam Rathbone of Liverpool early recognized the need for a central organization to recruit and train district nurses and became the father of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute for Nurses, or as it became, the Queens Institute of District Nursing (now Queens Institute of Nursing). The background of its formation gives a fascinating gl.