Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, desire, pain and time.
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As cost-of-living soars, wars rage and stock markets fluctuate, we could all use a respite. The natural world has been proven to have a healing effect.
Among her 5 decades of accomplishments, Nightingale founded the world’s first nursing school and advocated health care for all.
With the dawn of colonialism, nursing and midwifery were formally established and, in many colonies, recognised as the first modern clinical profession on the African continent.
Nurses have always been at the forefront during war, epidemics and other times of disaster.
Florence Nightingale, who would have turned 200 today, might be remembered for her work during the Crimean War. But that’s ignoring the 54 years afterwards she spent writing, analysing and agitating.
On the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, we take a look at how her monumental efforts helped shape the way we model health care and disease outbreak data today.
The Lady with the Lamp also did some of her most important work from home.
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Associate Professor and Lead of Statistical Support Network, Australian National University
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Dean of the Solomont School of Nursing, UMass Lowell
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Director Centre > Health Equity in Regional and Remote Communities, CQUniversity Australia
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University of Global Health Equity
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Vice Chancellor, University of Global Health Equity
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Biostatistician, The University of Melbourne
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Teaching Associate, Department of History, University of Nottingham
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Chair, Center for Nursing and Midwifery, University of Global Health Equity
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Professor Emeritus of English and Women’s Studies, Arizona State University
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Honorary Associate, Department of History, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer, Monash University
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Visiting Research Fellow, Department of English and Creative Writing, Adelaide University
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Researcher, School of Art, Communication and English, University of Sydney