Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, HealerAJN Book of the Year 2009 5 Stars Ellen Wurzbach, RN, MSN, PhDfor Doody Review Service This lavishly illustrated biography celebrates the life and work of Florence Nightingale on the 100th anniversary of her death. With meticulous scholarship, the author documents the struggles and achievements of a woman who defied the conventions and standards of Victorian England to blaze her own path. Archival photographs, drawings, letters, maps, and a riveting narrative create a portrait of this complex, larger than life woman who is still a source of inspiration today. |
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... Nightingale and other officials . Controversy over the Nightingale Fund As the Crimean War drew to a close , support was building back in England for the Nightingale Fund's plan to establish the first secular nursing school based on ...
... Nightingale Fund . Canada The Nightingale Fund sent a second team of nurses abroad in 1874 , this time to Canada . The administrators of the Montreal General Hospital wanted to begin a train- ing program for nurses similar to the one at ...
... Nightingale Fund closes , having collected £ 44,039 ; Nightingale given power to direct all funds . August 7. Arrives home at Lea Hurst after 20 months in the East . Preoccupied with memories of the Crimean dead . September 21 ...