![]() ![]() In honor of National Nurses Week, check out this Florence Nightingale video. How I got interested in Florence Nightingale Some questions to ask as you read the timeline Read and hear nursing historian Adelaide Nutting's summation of Nightingale's life and work I am donating my Florence Nightingale archive to the UCSF Nursing School. The University of California San Francisco School of Nursing is planning to archive this site so that its information will be saved for posterity. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE … but that her works would live on forever. that some day she would be "nothing but a name". From a tortured secret life of sorrow and almost madness she emerged as a war hero and leader of a society of women that spans the world over to this day. Through the Victorian age into the age of electricity and biology. ![]() She lived a long and wondrous life of 90 years. ![]() And to the idle and disrespected women of her time and forever after she brought forth a profession and work and respect and independence never seen before. In the end she was to bring a health and comfort to the sick of the world as had never been seen nor conceived of before. She had one and only one desire and that was to nurse. She was to prove that the patients in London hospitals died at a rate of 90% while those sick that did not go to hospital died at a rate of 60%. The girls were presented to Queen Victoria at the ages of 17 and 16 years. The family house in Hampshire had 70 gardeners. It was not until the age of 33 that she dressed herself and did her own hair. but she continued on, becoming the one and only expert on the subject of nursing and hospitals in all of Europe by the age of 30. Her mother and sister fainted and were thrown into hysterics and near insanity by her ambitions. In an age where the smell of a hospital would induce nausea and nurses were typically whores and drunks she aspired to be one. Growing up in a world of golf courses and servants and grandeur, royalty, operas and luxury, she taught herself the art of nursing and the knowledge of hospitals. Most often alone and misunderstood by her mother and sister and those around her. It was to be a difficult birth full of anxiety bordering on insanity frustrations few could endure, loneliness and physical and mental pain that would have killed a regular person. In response to a call from God to nurse the sick poor she was to turn her back on love, wealth, society and comfort the likes of which few will ever know to single handed champion a new direction for women of the world and health of all its citizens. This little girl was to bear no children of her own but to become perhaps the most famous woman of all time and give birth to the profession of nursing as we know it today. An unusual thing to do in a conservative time. In honor of the city of her birth and in keeping with the tradition started by her parents, the little girl was named Florence. N the 12th of May, 1820, in the city of Florence, Italy, Frances Nightingale gave birth to her second child. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.” They are not wounds, and blood, and fever, spotted and low, and dysentery, chronic and acute, and cold and heat and famine. “What the horrors of war are,” wrote Miss Nightingale on her way to the Crimea in May 1855, “no one can imagine. "The pioneers of one generation are forgotten when their work has passed into the accepted doctrine and practice of another." - Edward Cook, Florence Nightingale ![]() Country Joe McDonald's Florence Nightingale Tribute ![]()
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