Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not was a book published by Florence Nightingale in 1860. A 136-page volume, it was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others. Florence Nightingale stressed that it was not meant to be a comprehensive guide from which to teach one's self to be a nurse but to help in the practice of treating others.

The volume included advice and practices for the following areas:

• ventilation and warming
• health in houses
• petty management (how things are done by others when you must be away)
• noise
• variety (environment)
• taking food and what kinds of food
• bed and bedding
• light
• cleanliness of rooms
• personal cleanliness
• chattering hopes and advices (the false assurances and recommendations of family and friends to the sick)
• observation of the sick

Later editions of Notes on Nursing are available to the public today.

External links

• Contents of the book online