Florence NightingaleOM,RRC (/ˈflɒrənsˈnaɪtᵻŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820– 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.
She came to prominence while serving as a manager of nurses trained by her during the Crimean War, where she organised the tending to wounded soldiers. She gave nursing a highly favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.
Some recent commentators have asserted Nightingale's achievements in the Crimean War were exaggerated by the media at the time, to satisfy the public's need for a hero. Nevertheless, critics agree on the decisive importance of her follow-up achievements in professionalising nursing roles for women. In 1860, Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London. It was the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King's College London. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday. Her social reforms include improving healthcare for all sections of British society, advocating better hunger relief in India, helping to abolish prostitution laws that were over-harsh to women, and expanding the acceptable forms of female participation in the workforce.
Florence Nightingale was a 60-minute 2008 BBC One television drama on the early years of Florence Nightingale, from 1837 to the Royal Commission into the Crimean War. Nightingale was played by Laura Fraser, and her father by Michael Pennington. It was first broadcast on Sunday 1 June 2008.
The Florence Nightingale Museum is located at St Thomas' Hospital, which faces the Palace of Westminster across the River Thames in South Bank, central London, England. It is open to the public seven days a week. It re-opened on 12 May 2010 following an extensive £1.4m refurbishment.
The museum tells the real story of Florence Nightingale, "the lady with the lamp", from her Victorian childhood to her experiences in the Crimean, through to her years as an ardent campaigner for health reform. Nightingale is recognised as the founder of modern nursing in the United Kingdom. The new museum explains her legacy and also celebrates nursing today.
In 1860, four years after her famous involvement in the Crimean War, Nightingale founded the Nightingale Training School for nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital and the museum is located on this site.
The new museum is designed around three exciting pavilions that tell her story:
The school is ranked as the number one faculty for nursing in London and belongs to one of the leading universities in health services, policy and research in the world. The faculty specialises in the following areas: child and adolescent nursing; midwifery and women's health; adult nursing; mental health nursing; and postgraduate research, with programmes catering to the needs of a wider range of individuals and healthcare professionals continuing their professional development.
Established on 9 July 1860 by Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, the school is the world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medical school (St. Thomas' Hospital). As one of the oldest nursing schools in the world still in operation, it was a model for many similar training schools through the UK, Commonwealth and other countries for the latter half of the 19th century.
"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."
"Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion"
"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."
"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear"
"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."
"No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'devoted and obedient'. This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman"
"To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose"
"Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization"
"There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain"
"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm."
"The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm."
Queenstown nursing legend JudyStewart, who has died aged 92, nursed in the resort for 47 years and only retired for the final time four months before her 90th birthday ... .
Peter Kay bought Lea Hurst in 2011 and embarked on a three-year, “no-expenses-spared” restoration. He has since become something of a Nightingale expert — even naming his daughter after her ... .
The childhood home of FlorenceNightingale, the founder of modern nursing, has just gone up for sale, giving a potential future buyer the chance to purchase this stunning property in the Derbyshire countryside ....
“It breaks my heart to leave Lea Hurst,” FlorenceNightingale wrote in a diary entry about her family’s “small house with only 15 bedrooms” in the Derwent Valley village of Holloway, about four miles south of the spa town of Matlock.
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Lodi News Sentinel
13 Jun 2024
Lodi News Sentinel
13 Jun 2024