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Conflict and Costs When Reforming Nursing: The Introduction of Nightingale Nursing in Australia and Canada
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Conflict and Costs When Reforming Nursing: The Introduction of Nightingale Nursing in Australia and Canada
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The authors examine the financial impact of Nightingale-style nursing in mid-19th century Montreal and Sydney, Australia. The British-based Nightingale Fund sent only two teams of Nightingale-trained nurses to the colonies. One team was sent to the Sydney Infirmary in 1868, and the other team, under Sherbrooke-born Lady Superintendent Maria Machin (1843-1905), was sent to the Montreal General Hospital in 1875. Using these two examples, where there was a distinct break between older-style nursing and implementing Nightingale nursing, the authors demonstrate the huge increase in staff numbers and salary expenses around the time of the introduction of the new nursing style. Given its expense, the authors argue that it was not surprising that conflict inevitably accompanied the introduction of Nightingale nursing. In both cases, the Nightingale Fund Council withdrew its support to both teams within three years of their arrival. When Maria Machin left the Montreal General in 1878, the hospital reverted to the old, cheaper untrained nursing system, and it was not until 1890 that a training school was finally introduced.
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Journal of Clinical Nursing
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Vol. 18
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no. 19
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2692-2699
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October 2009
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en
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Godden, Judith, and Carol Helmstadter. “Conflict and Costs When Reforming Nursing: The Introduction of Nightingale Nursing in Australia and Canada.” Journal of Clinical Nursing Vol. 18, no. 19 (October 2009): 2692–2699.
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