Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action.

From: Nursing Education Perspectives | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: Hensel, Desiree | Copyright information

Florence Nightingale Today: Healing, Leadership, Global Action

by Barbara Montgomery Dossey, PhD, RN, HNC, FAAN, Louise C. Selanders, EdD, RN, Deva-Marie Beck, PhD, RN, and Alex Attewell, BA, AMA; Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association, 2004; 388 pages, $34.95

Can a profession exist without a historical foundation? According to the authors of this book, probably not. Dossey and her co-authors remind their readers that Florence Nightingale advised stude...

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