When Florence Nightingale arrived at the Scutari ... something she had first outlined in her 1859 book “Notes on Nursing.” In it, she wrote: “I use the word nursing for want of a better.

Florence Nightingale, who was born 200 years ... she was well aware of the importance of hand washing. In her book Notes on Nursing (1860), she wrote that: Every nurse ought to be careful to ...

Venerated as the "founder of modern nursing," Florence ... Nightingale into a Victorian celebrity. "She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration in these hospitals," the London Times ...

Florence Nightingale was an inspiring, courageous woman. She also wrote widely publishing over 200 books, pamphlets, and articles on nursing, hospital management, and English feminism. Her most famous ...

When Greta Westwood was 4 years old, she read a children’s book about Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale ... bedridden from 1857, Nightingale wrote thousands of letters campaigning for ...

Florence Nightingale ... published a book called Notes on Nursing which helped educate the poor on how they could best care for their sick relatives and neighbours. She later used a large sum ...

The mother of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale ... In 1859, she wrote “Notes on Nursing,” a curriculum for at-home nursing. Her book also was sold to the general public to promote ...

Scholars are finding there’s much more to the “lady with the lamp” than her famous exploits as a nurse in the Crimean War Joshua Hammer; Photographs by Tina Hillier - Contributing writer ...