Florence Nightingale

...slow and overdramatic delivery. -via the Presurfer 6 comments to "The Voice of Florence Nightingale" It's amazing how much Florence Nightingale sounded like Margaret Dumont on that recording. You know...Margaret Dumont from all those...

In this article: Margaret Dumont, Groucho, Marx Brothers, Thomas Edison, and Charlie Chaplin

...collaboration tells the stories of 68 extraordinary human beings, from the incredibly famous (Genghis Khan, Sigmund Freud, Florence Nightingale, Henry Ford) to the far less well known (Oliver Heaviside, Ada Lovelace, Ignacz...

In this article: Hans Christian Andersen, QI, Diego Rivera, Frida, Leon Trotsky, John Lloyd, Dog, and William Buckland

...they are doing their best to improve retention rates. Alison White, professor of community nursing and associate dean of the Florence Nightingale school of nursing and midwifery at King's College London, says: "Nursing programmes are...

In this article: King's College London, London, Department of Health, God, and De Montfort University

...to interlock with the demons Sasala was battling. The program indicated the piece was "based on the dark journal entries of Florence Nightingale," but the willed effort and ultimate collapse that Sasala portrayed could have come from any...

In this article: Hildegard von Bingen

...British Army Museum, Claydon House and Lea Hurst, Nightingale's childhood home, where she's been asked to stay next year. Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, in 1820 to wealthy British parents. While tending to the British wounded...

In this article: University of North Florida, England, Jacksonville, Pumpkin, Nightingale, and Mayport Middle School

...case of Mary Seacole, the Jamaican-born nurse who cared for soldiers in the Crimean War. This year, she emerged from the shadow of Florence Nightingale when designs for a statue of her to be erected in the grounds of St Thomas' Hospital in...

In this article: Thomas Clarkson, Percy Shaw, Alan Turing, Dan Snow, Mary Rand, Dysentery, and Francis Drake

...qualification will ever remove the need for it. For many, the epitome of a caring nurse will always be Florence Nightingale. However, Nightingale believed that well-educated individuals, using scientific principles and informed education about...

In this article: Department of Health, Surgery, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Northern Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, and UK

...proposals to improve care for patients will have the opposite effect - and leave nurses worse off, says Theodore Dalrymple. Florence Nightingale tending wounded from Crimean War at Scutari Photo: Getty Images A good nurse is above the...

In this article: Inflation and Crimean War

...Hearn five. And the transitions are dizzying. We go, for instance, from President Richard Nixon, in the section on "Complaint," to Florence Nightingale, writing from the front, which includes the scathing remark, "Thirty [wounded soldiers]...

In this article: Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Nixon, Suicide, Candy bar, Geography, and Communism

...in Britain which sought to offer better nursing, but the job remained one for poor women, who were given no medical training. Florence Nightingale changed all this with her belief that nursing offered challenges for respectable ladies. She...

In this article: Britain, Anglican, Crimean War, and St Thomas's Hospital