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Family Health Nursing – A European Perspective
 
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Department of Health Informatics and Statistics, Institute of Rural Health, Lublin, Poland; Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, University of Economics and Innovation, Lublin, Poland
 
 
Ann Agric Environ Med. 2013;20(4):643-644
 
ABSTRACT
Florence Nightingale, while formulating her concept of nursing mentioned, among nurses’ tasks, the popularization of personal hygiene and hygiene of surroundings in workers’ environments, as well as teaching baby care to mothers. The performance of these tasks required cooperation with the families, and at that time, such a cooperation was postulated by William Rathbone (1819–1902). According to him, to the tasks of a nurse providing home care for a patient also belong assistance to the family in the area of hygiene and health care.
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