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Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC was a social reformer, writer, statistician and founder of modern nursing. She became famous while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War. Bedridden for decades after her return, she adviced the government on army reform, sanitation in Britain and India, and hospital design.
Some of her writings:
Cassandra: Nightingale started her career after years of struggle to escape from her suffocating family. In this feminist essay, she condemned the forced idleness middle class Victorian women like her were submitted to
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not: Published in 1858, Nightingale wrote this book for women who needed to take care of patients as personal nurses, but became a cornerstone of nursing school curriculum at the time. Some of the ideas: sanitation, fresh air, sunlight, etc may be cliché today, but groundbreaking in her time. She promoted nursing as a observation and knowledge based discipline, and stressed how important to train for observation of patients.
Some of her writings:
Cassandra: Nightingale started her career after years of struggle to escape from her suffocating family. In this feminist essay, she condemned the forced idleness middle class Victorian women like her were submitted to
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not: Published in 1858, Nightingale wrote this book for women who needed to take care of patients as personal nurses, but became a cornerstone of nursing school curriculum at the time. Some of the ideas: sanitation, fresh air, sunlight, etc may be cliché today, but groundbreaking in her time. She promoted nursing as a observation and knowledge based discipline, and stressed how important to train for observation of patients.
