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Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1859. [1] [2] [3] A 76-page volume with 3 page appendix published by Harrison of Pall Mall, it was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 39#2 (2015), pp. 267–92. online; Helmstadter, Carol, and Judith Godden, eds. Nursing before Nightingale, 1815-1899 (2011) McBride, Brenda. Quiet Heroines: Story of the Nurses of the Second World War (1985) McEwen, Yvonne. In the Company of Nurses: The History of the British Army Nursing Service in the Great ...
Strachey developed the idea for Eminent Victorians in 1912, when he was living on occasional journalism and writing dilettante plays and verse for his Bloomsbury friends. . He went to live in the country at East Ilsley and started work on a book then called Victorian Silhouettes, containing miniature biographies of a dozen notable Victorian personalit
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care is an academic faculty within King's College London. The faculty is the world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medical school ( St. Thomas' Hospital ). [ 3 ]
Nightingale's theory was shown to be applicable during the Crimean War when she, along with other nurses she had trained, took care of injured soldiers by attending to their immediate needs, when communicable diseases and rapid spread of infections were rampant in this early period in the development of disease-capable medicines.
Her first book as a historian, a biography of Florence Nightingale published in 1950 by Constable, [3] took her straight to the top of her profession. [1] Her meticulous research had taken nine years, and the book succeeded in restoring Nightingale's reputation, which had dwindled following Lytton Strachey's representation of her in Eminent Victorians.
A portion of Wives and Daughters was written by Elizabeth Gaskell whilst staying with Mohl. [1] Mohl herself wrote Madame Récamier, with a Sketch of the History of Society in France, published in London in 1862. [8] This book drew on her knowledge of Récamier, but it also outlined her interest in women and a history of their rights. [1]