Books with title Florence Nightingale

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.

For Florence Nightingale (1820--1910), following Christ's example of service meant tending to the medical needs of the sick and injured. The famous "Lady with the Lamp," one of the most influential women of nineteenth-century England, is generally considered the founder of modern nursing. The best-known aspect of her life--nursing wounded soldiers at Scutari Hospital in Turkey during the Crimean War--comprised, in fact, a very small part of her fifty-year career, but provided the springboard from which it all began. Her good deeds to "the least of these" helped elevate nursing to the respectable profession it is today.

Florence Nightingale Nurse Pioneer introduces young readers to one of the most remarkable women in medical history. The cultural and historic background of her life are discussed in terms a young person can understand. Vocabulary study is incorporated in the text. The words are keyed to definitions at the end of the book.The Remarkable Florence Nightingale (from the Introduction):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 150 years.This book does not try to answer that question. In Florence's mind, there was no mystery behind her success. She believed God directed her to do her work. She believed God gave her the ability to get that work done.Throughout her life, Florence Nightingale never asked for attention. She asked for help as she tried to do her work. Although she was very ambitious, it was not ambition for fame or money that drove her. It was an ambition to get the work done that she thought God had assigned to her.After her heroic service in the Crimean War, people flocked around Florence Nightingale. They wanted to be close to this gifted person, almost as though by being close they could catch some of what she had.Florence's celebrity did not please her. As people drew close, she pulled away. She was ill, it is true, but that illness does not explain her many years of seclusion. She was not available for visits from most people. Even her family had to make appointments to see her.If she 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. This, she believed, was God's will.All of the stories about Florence Nightingale may tell us something of her character. They may tell us something about the way she lived. Certainly, she left many letters and manuscripts that revealed her heart and her ambitions. It is these that a reader should turn to for understanding of this remarkable woman.However, in the end, what matters to history, what matters to the world, is not what people thought about Florence Nightingale or what she understood about herself. What matters is what she did. And that was extraordinary.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 was a nurse and a medical pioneer. She was remarkable and extraordinary. She may have been British, but her gift was to the whole world, and to posterity. It is the world, and those of us who were born long after her, that owe her a debt of gratitude, and respect.Prepare to meet, in the few pages of this book, the remarkable, and extraordinary, Florence Nightingale.

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This “History of Nursing Edition” by Squid Ink Classics includes the full text of the original work. This work is a primary source document that can help nursing students in their study of the history of nursing, a foundational course in all college nursing programs. Primary sources such as the ones published in this series are the raw materials of history. They are the original documents that were created at the time under study. These types of sources are accounts or interpretations of events created by nurses and others with firsthand experience such as Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Mary Seacole, Adelaide Nutting and other nurses and professionals at the time who helped to establish the field of nursing. Examining primary sources such as those contained in this series gives students a powerful sense of history and the complexity of the past, especially as they pertain to the profession of nursing. Nursing history has been part of nursing curricula for many years. Its relevance to the education of nurses has a significant place in the curriculum and this series has been developed with these nursing students in mind. For students studying the history of nursing, primary source material such as found in this series offer entry points to many topics in the field of nursing.