Books with title Florence Nightingale To Her Nurses

Copyright 1961, hardcover with dustjacket, ex-library, 80 pages, with 2-color full-page illustrations on 25% of the pages. SYNOPSIS: "Biographical chapter book for youth. Florence's favorite game as a child in England was playing hospital with her dolls. Later she nursed dogs, cats, lame donkeys and sick lambs expanding to the village people as well. The British government recognized her talent and sent her to the Crimean war to administer treatment and kindness to the soldiers. She changed wartime nursing and later started schools for trained nurses in London." CONDITION: Library cardholder/checkout sheet and stamps/notations inside. Dustjacket is enclosed in mylar overlay taped to cover. Lower edges are worn exposing board, occasional small rip or finger smudge on pages. Binding is secure.

Every now and then someone comes along who carves an extraordinary path through life. People are attracted to the individual. Stories are told about the individual's childhood, family and relationships. Most of these stories have the same purpose, to try and understand how the individual came to be so remarkable. The question asked is always this: What is the secret behind such great success? It is this question that has led to speculation about Florence Nightingale for more than a hundred and fifty years.Although she was very ambitious, it was not ambition for fame or money that drove Florence Nightingale. It was a desire to get work done. After her heroic service in the Crimean War, people flocked around her. They wanted to be close to this gifted person, almost as though by being close they could catch some of what she had. If Florence appreciated celebrity, it was for only one purpose: As a celebrity she could get important people to listen to her and help her to do her work. In the end, what matters to history, what matters to the world, is what Florence Nightingale did. No one can challenge the fact that Florence Nightingale was brave, intelligent, determined and compassionate. No one can challenge the fact that she saved thousands of lives in her time, and since, through medical reforms. No one can challenge the fact that she inspired the Geneva Conventions and countless heroic nurses whose names we will never know.It is Florence's work, and the environment in which it was accomplished, that matter. It is the work, and the amazing integrity of the woman who performed it, that is the subject of this book.

Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous women in history, whose contribution to helping the injured soldiers during the Crimean War is a wonderful example of how just one person can make a difference to the course of history. Following Florence's journey to the hospital at Scutari and the work that she did there, the book also looks at how the improvements Florence made inform how hospitals treat hygiene and infections in hospitals today.Start-Up Historyis a series of 6 titles looking at everyday objects and events from their historical perspective and encourages readers to ask questions about what they can see on the page and how that might relate to their own experiences building skills and historical vocabulary. Perfect introductory history texts for 5-7 KS1 readers.