Project Gutenberg 2015-11-11 Public domain in the USA. 119 Nightingale, Florence 1820 1910 Rathbone, William 1819 1902 Rathbone, W. (William) Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment Produced by MWS, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment by Nightingale and Rathbone" is a historical account written during the mid-19th century. This book documents the pioneering initiatives taken by the Select Vestry of Liverpool to reform nursing practices in workhouse infirmaries by introducing trained nurses, highlighting the need for better care for the sick poor. The text focuses on the substantial improvements resulting from these reforms and provides insights into the necessary changes in how sick patients in workhouses were cared for, indicating a significant shift in social attitudes and nursing standards of that era. The narrative outlines the processes and considerations behind implementing trained nursing staff into the male wards of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary. It begins with the identification of inadequacies in the existing nursing system, which primarily relied on untrained pauper nurses. The text features correspondences from prominent figures such as Florence Nightingale, emphasizing the importance of skilled nursing, and details the trials and subsequent successes of employing qualified nurses. Through careful observation and assessment, the work describes the transformative impact on patient care quality, operational improvements, and the broader implications for policymaking in public health during a time when the welfare of the poor was a crucial issue faced by society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 51.1 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Nursing Poor -- Medical care RT Text Category: History - British Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: Health & Medicine 105352 2025-07-20T08:03:52.113190 text/html 79729 2024-10-22T23:26:16 text/html 83691 2025-07-20T08:03:55.477191 application/epub+zip 84087 2025-07-20T08:03:53.305225 application/epub+zip 84087 2025-07-20T08:03:52.732209 application/epub+zip 122390 2025-07-20T08:03:57.050152 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 109425 2025-07-20T08:03:54.927186 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 109636 2022-09-22T18:37:34.372580 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 87623 2025-07-20T08:03:51.830199 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 67509 2024-10-22T23:26:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18190 2025-07-20T08:03:57.179178 application/rdf+xml 6646 2025-07-20T08:03:52.803177 image/jpeg 1655 2025-07-20T08:03:52.768179 image/jpeg 71121 2025-07-20T08:03:52.124184 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia