Welcome to Project 1860

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Project 1860 

Inspired By

"NOTES ON NURSING"
What it is, and what it is not

BY

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

PREFACE.

"THE following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to teach nurses to nurse. They are meant simply to give hints for thought to women who have personal charge of the health of others." 

Matron and the Efficiency Office will be implementing "Project 1860" to ensure we return to the cherished values of "Basic & Fundamental" Nursing Care from the Victorian Golden Age.

"A tidy Ward is an efficient Ward. Ensure a major portion of the day is dedicated to correcting the disarray that patients cause."

"Of all the periods in the Hospital  Day, Visiting Time is one of the most pressured & least satisfactory for the busy Nurse."

"A major set back (for Nurses) came with the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948. Give people anything for nothing and they will cease to appreciate it. The NHS Act opened the floodgates to malingerers who had, until 1948, been held in check by decent Victorian values. Now any Tom, Dick or Harriet can march into a hospital, demanding free medical and nursing attention."

THE WELFARE OF OUR PATIENTS IS AT STAKE

Down with the Modernists

"I shall petition for proper nurses headgear, aprons & practical long skirts. I shall be relentless in my fight for lace cuffs"

"Nurse training should be an ideal rounding off to a young woman's education, providing a smooth transition from childhood to motherhood.

"Men in Nursing! Does not the very phrase, this palpable contradiction in terms, strike you with its grotesquerie - and cry to heaven itself for correction."

"The invidious take over of the Nursing Profession by those of the male sex can no longer be borne."

"We all have good reason to regret the extension in visiting hours foisted on us by misguided theorists."

In dealing with difficult relatives, as with difficult patients, a firm approach is absolutely essential. Believe me, attempts to reason with them will only be interpreted as weakness.

Project 1860 

A RETURN TO TRADITIONAL VALUES AT 

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And Never Forget the #ConDem NHS Motto

"Did you hear about the NHS Staff who died and went straight to hell? It was 2 weeks before they realised they weren't at work."

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