Introductory Notes On Lyingin Institutions Florence Nightingale by Florence Nightingale instant download after payment.

The first step to be taken in the discussion is to enquire, What
is the real normal death-rate of lying-in women? And, having
ascertained this to the extent which existing data may enable us
to do, we must compare this death-rate with the rates occurring
in establishments into which parturition cases are received in
numbers. We have then to classify the causes of death, so far as
we can, from the data, with the view of ascertaining whether any
particular cause of death predominates in lying-in institutions;
and, if so, why so? And finally, seeing that everybody must be
born, that every birth in civilised countries is as a rule attended
by somebody, and ought to be by a skilled attendant; since,
therefore, the attendance upon lying-in women is the widest
practice in the world, and these attendants should be trained;
we must decide the great question as to whether a training
school for midwifery nurses can be safely conducted in any
building receiving a number of parturition cases, or whether
such nurses must be only trained at the bedside in the patient’s
own home, with far more difficulty and far less chance of
success.