Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend

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Nightingale, Florence (1994). Calabria, Michael D.; MacRae, Janet A. (eds.). Suggestions for Thought: Selections and Commentaries. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1501-4. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021 . Retrieved 6 July 2010. This is the most important study of Florence Nightingale’s life and work for a generation. Using newly available sources, the authors set her firmly within the political, cultural and spiritual life of Victorian Britain as someone who both transcended and reflected the roles traditionally available to women of her class." In 2001 and 2008 the BBC released documentaries that were critical of Nightingale's performance in the Crimean War, as were some follow-up articles published in The Guardian and the Sunday Times. Nightingale scholar Lynn McDonald has dismissed these criticisms as "often preposterous", arguing they are not supported by the primary sources. [12] An excellent source for more original documents to discuss with your pupils relating to Florence Nightingale are two National Archives blogs listed in the external links. Here you will find her birth certificate and ‘passport’ for the Crimea, an original photograph of Florence Nightingale at Scutari, more documents about her work and the last ever photograph of Florence Nightingale in old age, and another statue of Florence Nightingale in Derby, where she spent much of her childhood. a b c "Florence Nightingale: the medical superstar". Daily Express. 12 May 2016. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016 . Retrieved 12 May 2016.

a b c d Nightingale, Florence (2010). "An introduction to volume14". In McDonald, Lynn (ed.). Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War. Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Vol.14. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 978-0-88920-469-0.Professional Nursing Practice: Concepts and perspective, Koernig & Hayes, sixth edition, 2011, p. 100. Florence from childhood loved God and holy Book. According to her, on the seventh of February 1837, while she was walking in a garden, she heard the voice of God, which was call her to a specific mission ( 1, 2).

Florence wanted to become a nurse, but at that time nursing was not the sort of job people like Florence did. Nightingale, Florence (2002). McDonald, Lynn (ed.). Florence Nightingale's Theology: Essays, Letters and Journal Notes. Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Vol.3. Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 978-0-88920-371-6. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021 . Retrieved 6 July 2010. When I am no longer even a memory, just a name, I hope my voice may perpetuate the great work of my life. God bless my dear old comrades of Balaclava and bring them safe to shore. Florence Nightingale. [127] Theatre So eventually I wrote The Rose of Sebastopol, inspired by Nightingale’s transformation from bored society miss to pioneer and reformer. While doctors figure large in literature, I don’t think enough has been written about or by nurses, in any genre. But here’s my choice of 10 books; Nightingale might have approved of some, not all. Source 2 – Extract from the ‘Report upon the state of the hospitals of the British Army in the Crimea and Scutari’ Catalogue ref: WO 33/1

Florence Nightingale was the second of two daughters born, during an extended European honeymoon, to William Edward and Frances Nightingale. (William Edward’s original surname was Shore; he changed his name to Nightingale after inheriting his great-uncle’s estate in 1815.) Florence was named after the city of her birth. After returning to England in 1821, the Nightingales had a comfortable lifestyle, dividing their time between two homes, Lea Hurst in Derbyshire, located in central England, and Embley Park in warmer Hampshire, located in south-central England. Embley Park, a large and comfortable estate, became the primary family residence, with the Nightingales taking trips to Lea Hurst in the summer and to London during the social season. Friendly, Michael (2007). "A.-M. Guerry's Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis". Statistical Science. Institute of Mathematical Statistics. 22 (3). arXiv: 0801.4263. doi: 10.1214/07-STS241. S2CID 13536171. a b c d e f g h Bostridge, Mark (17 February 2011). "Florence Nightingale: the Lady with the Lamp". BBC. Archived from the original on 25 December 2019 . Retrieved 20 December 2019.

In 1972, the poet Eleanor Ross Taylor wrote "Welcome Eumenides", a poem written in Nightingale's voice and quoting frequently from Nightingale's writings. [93] Adrienne Rich wrote that "Eleanor Taylor has brought together the waste of women in society and the waste of men in wars and twisted them inseparably." [94] Theology It is late September 1854. Florence Nightingale and Sidney Herbert, the Secretary of War are interviewing a woman who wants to go to the Crimea as a nurse.Florence Nightingale died peacefully in her sleep in her room at 10 South Street, Mayfair, London, on 13 August 1910, at the age of 90. [67] [c] The offer of burial in Westminster Abbey was declined by her relatives and she is buried in the churchyard of StMargaret's Church in East Wellow, Hampshire, near Embley Park with a memorial with just her initials and dates of birth and death. [69] [70] She left a large body of work, including several hundred notes that were previously unpublished. [71] A memorial monument to Nightingale was created in Carrara marble by Francis William Sargant in 1913 and placed in the cloister of the Basilica of Santa Croce, in Florence, Italy. [72] Contributions Statistics and sanitary reform With the support of Queen Victoria, Nightingale helped create a Royal Commission into the health of the army. It employed leading statisticians of the day, William Farr and John Sutherland, to analyze army mortality data, and what they found was horrifying: 16,000 of the 18,000 deaths were from preventable diseases—not battle. But it was Nightingale’s ability to translate this data into a new visual format that really caused a sensation. Her polar area diagram, now known as a “Nightingale Rose Diagram,” showed how the Sanitary Commission’s work decreased the death rate and made the complicated data accessible to all, inspiring new standards for sanitation in the army and beyond. She became the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society and was named an honorary member of the American Statistical Association. Florence Nightingale’s Impact on Nursing A BBC documentary reported that "Florence and her older sister Parthenope benefited from their father's advanced ideas about women's education. They studied history, mathematics, Italian, classical literature, and philosophy, and from an early age Florence, who was the more academic of the two girls, displayed an extraordinary ability for collecting and analysing data which she would use to great effect in later life." [7] Young Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale and Hospital Reform: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, volume 16. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 2012. p.639.

A companion read to Vera Brittain, this is an account of a hospital set up and run entirely by women. Moore documents the tenacity of the two suffragette doctors who established the hospital, and the female team who staffed it. Previously unskilled women, some of them inexperienced even in domestic work, toiled relentlessly to nurse wounded men, and victims of the Spanish flu. Yet after the war these women were relegated to poorly paid areas of medicine, and decades later nurses were still treated as recalcitrant parlour maids by their matrons and those who fixed their pay. Nightingale, Florence (2003). Vallee, Gerard (ed.). Mysticism and Eastern Religions. Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Vol.4. Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 978-0-88920-413-3. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021 . Retrieved 6 July 2010. Vojnovic, Paola (2013). 'Florence Nightingale: The Lady of the Lamp' in Santa Croce in Pink: Untold Stories of Women and their Monuments . Adriano Antonioletti Boratto. p.27. By 1882, several Nightingale nurses had become matrons at several leading hospitals, including, in London ( St Mary's Hospital, Westminster Hospital, StMarylebone Workhouse Infirmary and the Hospital for Incurables at Putney) and throughout Britain ( Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; Cumberland Infirmary and Liverpool Royal Infirmary), as well as at Sydney Hospital in New South Wales, Australia. [54]

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Nightingale's rare references to Unitarianism are mildly negative, and while her religious views were heterodox, she remained in the Church of England throughout her life. Her biblical annotations, private journal notes, and translations of the mystics give quite a different impression of her beliefs, and these do have a bearing on her work with nurses, and not only at Edinburgh, but neither [Cecil(ia) Woodham-]Smith nor [her] followers consulted their sources." [95] After Nightingale sent a plea to The Times for a government solution to the poor condition of the facilities, the British Government commissioned Isambard Kingdom Brunel to design a prefabricated hospital that could be built in England and shipped to the Dardanelles. The result was Renkioi Hospital, a civilian facility that, under the management of Edmund Alexander Parkes, had a death rate less than one tenth of that of Scutari. [26] The Florence Nightingale Declaration Campaign, [105] established by nursing leaders throughout the world through the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH), aims to build a global grassroots movement to achieve two United Nations Resolutions for adoption by the UN General Assembly of 2008. They will declare: The International Year of the Nurse–2010 (the centenary of Nightingale's death); The UN Decade for a Healthy World – 2011 to 2020 (the bicentenary of Nightingale's birth). NIGH also works to rekindle awareness about the important issues highlighted by Florence Nightingale, such as preventive medicine and holistic health. As of 2016, the Florence Nightingale Declaration has been signed by over 25,000signatories from 106countries. [106]