Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend

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Mc Donald, L. (28 January 2010). Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. pp.36, 37, 429, 449, etc. ISBN 9780889207042. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021 . Retrieved 8 August 2019. Source 1 – ‘One of the wards of the hospital at Scutari’, an illustration published 21 April 1856 by Paul & Dominic Colnaghi & Co – Wellcome Library, London These stories are crazily on the edge. The figure of the nurse appears frequently – dispassionate, fond of gossip, worn out. It takes a strong stomach to read Dr HA Moynihan, in which a dental nurse helps her dentist grandfather yank out all his own teeth. And the tragic juxtaposition of two voices in Mijito – a teenage mother and the overworked nurse for whom a bruised baby is one more case on a long list.

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. This brilliant book deftly uses the device of ‘home’ to interrogate the life and achievements of Florence Nightingale. By doing so it bring a new interpretive lens on the role that ‘home’ played in her reform efforts and breathes new life into this ever fascinating nurse and cultural icon." Nightingale decided to use the money to further her cause. In 1860, she funded the establishment of St. Thomas’ Hospital, and within it, the Nightingale Training School for Nurses. Nightingale became a figure of public admiration. Poems, songs and plays were written and dedicated in the heroine’s honor. Young women aspired to be like her. Eager to follow her example, even women from the wealthy upper classes started enrolling at the training school. Thanks to Nightingale, nursing was no longer frowned upon by the upper classes; it had, in fact, come to be viewed as an honorable vocation. Petroni, A (1969). "The first nursing school in the world–St. Thomas Hospital School in London". Munca Sanit. 17 (8): 449–454. PMID 5195090. Life and death of Florence Nightingale's beloved pet". Trinity College, Cambridge. 28 December 2016. Archived from the original on 22 May 2020 . Retrieved 3 October 2019.The same 1861 letter published in The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 2 of 2 by Edward Tyas Cook,pp. 14–17 at Project Gutenberg During the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of temporary NHS Nightingale Hospitals were set up in readiness for an expected rise in the number of patients needing critical care. The first was housed in the ExCeL London [112] and several others followed across England. [113] Celebrations to mark her bicentenary in 2020, were disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and Nightingale's contribution to scientific and statistical analysis of infectious disease and nursing practice may have led to the new temporary hospitals being in her name, in Scotland named the NHS Louisa Jordan after a nurse who followed in Nightingale's footsteps in battlefield nursing in World War One. [114] Museums and monuments Statue of Nightingale by Arthur George Walker in Waterloo Place, London Florence Nightingale Statue, London Road, Derby Florence Nightingale stained glass window, originally at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary Chapel and now removed to St Peter's Church, Derby and rededicated 9October 2010 To ensure that the wounded were kept clean and fed well, Florence Nightingale set up laundries to wash linen and clothing and kitchens to cook food. This greatly improved the medical and sanitary arrangements at Scutari reduced the death rate. The work of Florence Nightingale and her nurses set the standards for modern day nursing. Nightingale made a comprehensive statistical study of sanitation in Indian rural life and was the leading figure in the introduction of improved medical care and public health service in India. In 1858 and 1859, she successfully lobbied for the establishment of a Royal Commission into the Indian situation. Two years later, she provided a report to the commission, which completed its own study in 1863. "After 10years of sanitary reform, in 1873, Nightingale reported that mortality among the soldiers in India had declined from 69 to 18 per1,000". [76] :107 In 1838, her father took the family on a tour in Europe where she was introduced to the English-born Parisian hostess Mary Clarke, with whom Florence bonded. She recorded that "Clarkey" was a stimulating hostess who did not care for her appearance, and while her ideas did not always agree with those of her guests, "she was incapable of boring anyone." Her behaviour was said to be exasperating and eccentric and she had little respect for upper-class British women, whom she regarded generally as inconsequential. She said that if given the choice between being a woman or a galley slave, then she would choose the freedom of the galleys. She generally rejected female company and spent her time with male intellectuals. Clarke made an exception, however, in the case of the Nightingale family and Florence in particular. She and Florence were to remain close friends for 40years despite their 27-year age difference. Clarke demonstrated that women could be equal to men, an idea that Florence had not learnt from her mother. [14]

Source 6a – Front cover of a file about a statue for Florence Nightingale, Catalogue ref: WORK 20/67 Wilkinson, Leland (28 January 2006). The Grammar of Graphics. Springer Science & Business Media. p.209. ISBN 9780387286952 . Retrieved 26 April 2022. 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. Miss Nightingale Dies, Aged Ninety". The New York Times. 15 August 1910. Archived from the original on 18 April 2006 . Retrieved 21 July 2007.If ever there was a memoir for our times, it is this. Brittain’s passionate account of her pre-war girlhood, love affair, and the brutal discipline of her work as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, first in England then Malta and France during the first world war have an extraordinary resonance. She captures the torment of grief – as she lost fiance, brother and friends – endured while performing punishing duties. Paradoxically, one of the most heart-wrenching chapters describes how Brittain’s parents required her to abandon hospital work and resume her role as daughter of the house. In 1908, at the age of 88, she was conferred the merit of honor by King Edward. In May of 1910, she received a congratulatory message from King George on her 90th birthday. Florence Nightingale: Death and Legacy

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. p.18. ISBN 978-0-88920-371-6. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021 . Retrieved 6 July 2010. Una and Her Paupers, Memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones, by her sister. with an introduction by Florence Nightingale. New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1872. 1872 . Retrieved 6 July 2010. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: others ( link). See also 2005 publication by Diggory Press, ISBN 978-1-905363-22-3 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 Vicinus, Martha (1985). Independent Women, Work and Community for Single Women, 1850–1920. London: The University of Chicago Press. p.109.

Indeed, Nightingale is described as "a true pioneer in the graphical representation of statistics" and is especially well known for her usage of a polar area diagram, [76] :107 or occasionally the Nightingale rose diagram, equivalent to a modern circular histogram, to illustrate seasonal sources of patient mortality in the military field hospital she managed. While frequently credited as the creator of the polar area diagram, it is known to have been used by André-Michel Guerry in 1829 [77] and Léon Louis Lalanne by 1830. [78] Nightingale called a compilation of such diagrams a "coxcomb", but later that term would frequently be used for the individual diagrams. [79] She made extensive use of coxcombs to present reports on the nature and magnitude of the conditions of medical care in the Crimean War to Members of Parliament and civil servants who would have been unlikely to read or understand traditional statistical reports. In 1859, Nightingale was elected the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society. [80] In 1874 she became an honorary member of the American Statistical Association. [81] " Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army in the East" by Florence Nightingale