Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale 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. She significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards. Nightingale gave nursing a 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.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
A revolutionary 19th-century nursing guide urges women to embrace cleanliness and comfort, revealing how a healing environment holds the key to better health.
By Florence Nightingale
Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals
Discover how European education endangered indigenous children as one woman uncovers disturbing death rates and demands better health and education standards.
By Florence Nightingale
Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military Hospitals in Peace and War
Discover how the integration of trained women into military hospitals forever changed medical care during war and peace.
By Florence Nightingale
Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment
Witness a groundbreaking transformation in 19th-century healthcare as a city bravely introduces trained nurses to its workhouse, forever changing how the vulnerable are cared for.
By Florence Nightingale
Directions for Cooking by Troops, in Camp and Hospital Prepared for the Army of Virginia, and published by order of the Surgeon General, with essays on "taking food," and "what food."
Amidst war, discover how strategic cooking and nutrition can transform survival for troops and the sick.
By Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses A selection from Miss Nightingale's addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale school at St. Thomas's hospital
** Discover a long-ago perspective on moral duty intertwined with compassionate healthcare, within a collection of powerful, nineteenth century teachings.
By Florence Nightingale
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
Discover how a woman defied expectations in an era of limited medical knowledge to champion sanitary environments, transforming basic care into a powerful force for patient wellness and recovery.
By Florence Nightingale
Introductory notes on lying-in institutions : $b Together with a proposal for organising an institution for training midwives and midwifery nurses
Discover how a visionary reformer sought to revolutionize childbirth practices and save lives by exposing the deadly failings of maternity care and proposing a bold new vision for midwife training.
By Florence Nightingale