Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, desire, pain and time.

Before the hospital was deployed to Turkey ... a nearby barracks hospital where Florence Nightingale worked, the mortality rate was 42.7%.This 40% difference was evidence of the profound impact ...

Florence Nightingale’s Legacy: Florence Nightingale’s name conjures a nearly mythic image: a lone woman gliding silently through dimly lit hospital corridors, carrying a lamp and radiating ...

Today marks International Nurses Day, a day celebrated in honor of the men and women working in hospitals and clinics around the world. The day also commemorates the birthday of Florence Nightingale .

Queen Victoria was a big fan of Florence Nightingale. Before the Crimea War ended ... were concerned with proper ventilation of their hospitals, which were specially built in accordance with ...

Create a role play of the hospital ward in Scutari before Florence Nightingale arrived. What would it have been like? Write a description of it. Role play Florence Nightingale arriving and making ...

In the summer of 1856 Florence Nightingale sailed home from war furious. As the nursing administrator of a sprawling British Army hospital network ... diagrams never before seen by the public ...

Determined to improve the conditions, before the end of the war she was ... health and hygiene that influenced hospitals in future wars – and the Red Cross. Florence Nightingale, like the British Red ...