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Florence Nightingale : mystic, visionary, healer
by Dossey, Barbara Montgomery.
Readers are informed and exhilarated by the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant pioneer who played a major role in making nursing the respected profession it is today. This sumptuously illustrated biography of nursing’s inspiring founder focuses on Nightingale’s mystic beliefs, her contributions to public health and infection control, and her trailblazing work in government and health care reform. Readers discover Nightingale’s life as a mystic and her many health care theories and practices that are still in use today.
Florence Nightingale at first hand /
by McDonald, Lynn
Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous figures in modern history, yet questions have been raised as to her real achievements. Much of what we know of her emanates from unreliable second-hand accounts and from a misreading of the primary sources. Based on her writings, “Florence Nightingale at First Hand” lets the legendary founder of nursing and heroine of the Crimean War speak for herself. Author Lynn McDonald is the editor of the “Collected Works of Florence Nightingale” (WLU Press) and the worlds foremost Nightingale authority. Chapters relate Nightingales background, her faith and political creed, her work during Crimean War and its aftermath, on later wars, and on reform in nursing, health care, midwifery, workhouses, hospitals, and India.
Florence Nightingale today : healing, leadership, global action /
by Dossey, Barbara Montgomery
Contents include several essays by authors including: Florence Nightingale’s three tenets : healing, leadership, global action / Barbara M. Dossey — A study of her 13 formal letters to her nurses (1872-1900) / Barbara M. Dossey — Florence Nightingale’s foundational philosophy for contemporary nursing / Louise C. Selanders — Nightingale, social change, and leadership : dynamic forces for nursing / Louise C. Selanders — Leading though theory : Nightingale’s theory of environmental adaptation theory of nursing practice / Louise C. Selanders — Florence Nightingale’s artifacts : myths and meanings / Alex Attewell —
Florence Nightingale : the making of an icon /
by Bostridge, Mark
The common soldier’s savior, the standard-bearer of modern nursing, a pioneering social reformer: Florence Nightingale belongs to that select band of historical characters who are instantly recognizable. Home-schooled, bound for the life of an educated Victorian lady, Nightingale scandalized her family when she found her calling as a nurse, a thoroughly unsuitable profession for a woman of her class. As the “Lady with the Lamp,” ministering to the wounded and dying of the Crimean War, she offers an enduring image of sentimental appeal. In the first major biography of Florence Nightingale in more than fifty years, Mark Bostridge draws on a wealth of unpublished material, including previously unseen family papers, to throw new light on this extraordinary woman’s life and character.
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Journal Articles
Benedict, E. (2012). The Constant Flame… from the archives, three articles that explore the life and legend of Florence Nightingale. Canadian Nurse, 108(5), 18-20.
McDonald, L. (2006). Florence Nightingale AS A SOCIAL REFORMER. History Today, 56(1), 9-15.
The article discusses the contributions of Florence Nightingale, the heroine of the Crimean War, to the improvement of public health for the poor. Although Nightingale is known as a founder of the nursing profession and as a hospital reformer, she can also be credited for her contribution to public health care and social reform. She espoused quality health care for people in the workhouse infirmaries which led to the establishment of the Liverpool Workhouse Infirmary. She pressed for reforms when a workhouse inmate died from lack of nursing. She lobbied for her proposals for workhouse reform.
McDonald, L. (2013). What would Florence Nightingale say?. British Journal Of Nursing (Mark Allen Publishing), 22(9), 542-Unknown.
Florence Nightingale needs to be rediscovered and revisited for her vision and early development of professional nursing. It is now more than 100 years since her death (in 1910) and more than 150 years since the founding of her school at St Thomas’ Hospital (in 1860). She stopped being an icon for nurses many years ago, and few nurses now know what she actually stood for-a lot more than she said in her Notes on Nursing (Nightingale, 1860).
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