期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2013
卷号：20
期号：4
页码：643-644
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：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 [1]. The performance of these tas ks 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 b elong assista nce to the family in the area of hygiene a nd health ca re. In 1859 he wrote: '… it occurred to me to engage (…) nurse, to go into one of the poorest districts of Liverpool and try, in nursing the poor, to relieve suffering and to te ach them the rules of health …' These words are considered as the origin of the 'institution' of a distric t nurse, which is essentially equivalent to the contemporary concept of a community nurse, or fami ly nurse
