Letter by Florence Nightingale [manuscript] London, 1881 May 6
- Bib ID:
- 3063107
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference. Not for loan.
- Description:
-
- 1891
- 1 cm (14 leaves)
- Summary:
-
The letter, to an unidentified recipient, discusses the need for appropriate training of nurses, and the meaning of the expression 'like a woman'.
- Biography/History:
-
Florence Nightingale pushed for reforms in the British military health-care system and public nursing, raised awareness of hygiene, healthy living and working environments, and elevated nursing as a respectable profession for women. In 1860 she established the Nightingale Training School for nurses at St Thomas' Hospital, London. Probationer nurses were trained and sent to establish nurse training in hospitals in Britain and abroad, including India and Australia.
- Notes:
- Manuscript reference no.: MS 9739
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 188
- Occupation:
- Nurses
- Copyright:
-
Copyright Undetermined
If you wish to copy or order copies, contact us. For access conditions return to the record display above.
- Reason for copyright status:
- A Manuscript Collection may have a range of formats and dates.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Visiting nursing in the United States; containing a directory of the organizations employing trained visiting nurses, with chapters on the principles, organization and methods of administration of such work [microform]
- Industrial nursing for industrial, public health, and pupil nurses, and for employers of labor ... [microform]
- Twenty thousand nurses tell their story; a report on studies of nursing functions sponsored by the American Nurses' Association [by] Everett C. Hughes, Helen MacGill Hughes [and] Irwin Deutscher. With a foreword by Agnes Ohlson
- Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not. [microform]
- Florence Nightingale to her nurses; a selection from Miss Nightingale's addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital. [microform]