Florence Nightingale

(1820 – 1910)

• Biographical information on Nightingale. Insight to family and other influences. Good history site. Spartacus Education.

• Environmental Adaptation Model - Florence Nightingale set out to define nursing. Although her approach is deceptively simple (what nursing is and what it is not), the implications of her theoretical work are profound and have relevant meaning today at many levels of nursing practice. (Information from Nursingtheory.net)

• Website of the biography ‘ Florence Nightingale. Avenging Angel‘. Hugh Small.

• Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. A project collecting published and unpublished writings and identifying sources of quotations, etc: University of Guelph.

• Tribute to Florence Nightingale. Country Joe McDonald.  Excellent history, data and links.

Nightingale 1851	Nightingale 1856

Florence Nightingale Foundation

• Florence Nightingale Foundation, London, UK. 

• Florence Nightingale Letters at the University of Kansas. (Includes recent purchased  letters).

• Florence Nightingale’s Grave Site. (The headstone is marked simply ‘FN’). American Society for the History of Nursing.

• Nightingale’s Methematical Education. Sally Lipsey (Reprint). Agnes Scott College.

• Nightingale’s use of Statistics in the Crimean War. Cynthia Audain. Agnes Scott College.

• Paper on Rural Hygiene

• The Florence Nightingale Museum, UK

• ‘The Lady With the Lamp’ Doll. (USA)

Order of Merit given to Nightingale in 1907 by King Edward VII. (First time the Order is awarded to a female)	Nightingale. Circa 1900

The Florence Nightingale Pledge

I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician, in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.