Person
Nightingale, Florence (1820 - 1910)
- Born
- 15 May 1820
Florence, Italy - Died
- 13 August 1910
London, England - Occupation
- Nurse and Hospital administrator
Summary
Florence Nightingale led a major reforms in hospital nursing in the United Kingdom from the 1850s and was later consulted by foreign governments especially in relation to wartime nursing. Improved sanitation and education were the key elements of her reforms.
Related entries
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Florence Nightingale - Correspondence, 1867-1908, 1867 - 1908, MLMSS 1262; Nightingale, Florence (1820 - 1910); Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Books
- Russell, R. Lynette, From Nightingale to Now: Nurse Education in Australia (Sydney: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990), 280 pp. Details
Conference Papers
- Corderey, Cheryl, 'Another Victorian Legacy: Florence Nightingale, Miasmatic Theory and Nursing Practice', in New Countries and Old Medicine: Proceedings of an International Conference on the History of Medicine and Health, Auckland, New Zealand, 1994 edited by Linda Bryder and Derek Dow (Auckland: Pyramid Press, 1995), pp. 298-304.. Details
Journal Articles
- Seaman, Keith, 'Florence Nightingale and the Australian Aborigines', Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, 20 (1992), 90-96. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q37103. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/54172695. Details
- 'Nightingale, Florence (1820-1910)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-934827. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 21 February 2003
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