Annotated Bibliography
“Biography: Florence's Biography.” The Florence Nightingale Museum. January 11, 2014. Accessed January 11, 2014. http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/the-collection/biography.html.
This website is run by the Florence Nightingale Museum in London England, which is a well known and well respected museum which specifically highlights Florence Nightingale, who is known as the Mother of Modern Nursing. The main idea of the bibliography on Nightingale is to educate the reader on Nightingale and her specific achievements and lasting influence. The source was used to talk about Nightingale’s background, her time nursing in Scutari, as well as what was expected of a women during Nightingale’s life- time on the website created about Nightingale. In conclusion this source was very helpful in finding interesting and credible information about Florence Nightingale and her significant influence in the nursing field.
Bostridge, Mark. Florence Nightingale the Making of an Icon. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.
This novel was written about Florence Nightingale, a woman who both saved many lives and made the field of nursing a respectable one for women. The author, Mark Bostridge was educated at the University of Oxford and was well known as a British writer and critic. The main idea of his novel was that Nightingale was a very influential women and a very interesting one at that. In his novel he discussed her childhood and where she came from, her education, and of course her career as a nurse. This book was not specifically used on the website, but rather as a source of background knowledge on Nightingale, the very powerful and prominent nurse of her time and in modern nursing today.
“Florence Nightingale (1820-1910).” British Broadcasting Corporation. January 11, 2014. Accessed January 11, 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/nightingale_florence.shtml.
This source is a well known and recognized as an educational and credible website. The site provides accounts of many different historical events and influential people in history, as well as many other historical items of importance. The main idea of the page on Florence Nightingale was to get across the point of what a powerful and amazing women Nightingale was. The source was short but to the point giving the reader information on Nightingale’s childhood, her training as a nurse, and the nursing school that Nightingale started to educate future nurses. The information from this website was used in the project in the parts about Nightingale’s major contribution to the medical field as well as on the section giving background information and an introduction on Nightingale to the viewer of the final project. In conclusion this source was very useful and beneficial to the research conducted on Florence Nightingale.
“Florence Nightingale.” School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St. Andrews, Scotland. January 16, 2014. Accessed January 16, 2014. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Nightingale.html.
This website is run by a University in Scotland, one that is particularly devoted to Mathematics. Nightingale herself was particularly interested in the mathematics field and actually begged her parents to allow her to get a math tutor. This source was very interesting and easy to understand. The website gave a lot of information on Nightingales influence in the Crimean War, her struggles to have sanitation reforms in hospitals in order to benefit a patients outcome, as well as it gave information about the statistics that Nightingale collected on mortality rates of patients. Those are only a few of the many things this source touched upon. The source was specifically used when talking about Nightingale’s role in treating wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, the many honors she received, and her strong focus on sanitation conditions and improving them, on the website created about Nightingale.
Gill, Gillian. Nightingales. New York, NY: The Random House Publishing Group, 2004.
The novel is about the Nightingale family, as its title suggests. Gill is a well known author who specializes in biographies. The main idea of this book is to educate the reader about the Nightingale family. The text discusses many things from the privileged lives the Nightingales led to the dispute Florence Nightingale had with her parents, particularly her mother about her dream of becoming a nurse. This text was used in the website to educate the reader on Florence’s struggle with her parents to pursue higher education, particularly in mathematics, and to become a nurse. This source was very interesting and educational.
Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing. Princeton New York London: Brandon/ Systems Press, Inc., 1970.
The main idea of this text written by Florence Nightingale, the Mother of Modern Nursing, was to share her findings from her days in the nursing field with future nurses. In her text she talked about sanitation problems in different hospitals, what patients should be fed while being treated, different observations she made as she treated various patients, and many other insightful information she had come across in her experience. One of the ways this text was specifically used in the website was on the page about Nightingale’s Mistaken Practices. Nightingale was a firm believer in the Miasma Theory, or the theory that disease was caused by bad air. In modern medicine this theory has been put to rest and many other disease causing agents have been identified accurately. In conclusion not only was this source extremely interesting to read and get a perspective of what times were like when Nightingale was a nurse, but also very educational when learning about the nursing field during the mid to late 1800s.
This website is run by the Florence Nightingale Museum in London England, which is a well known and well respected museum which specifically highlights Florence Nightingale, who is known as the Mother of Modern Nursing. The main idea of the bibliography on Nightingale is to educate the reader on Nightingale and her specific achievements and lasting influence. The source was used to talk about Nightingale’s background, her time nursing in Scutari, as well as what was expected of a women during Nightingale’s life- time on the website created about Nightingale. In conclusion this source was very helpful in finding interesting and credible information about Florence Nightingale and her significant influence in the nursing field.
Bostridge, Mark. Florence Nightingale the Making of an Icon. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.
This novel was written about Florence Nightingale, a woman who both saved many lives and made the field of nursing a respectable one for women. The author, Mark Bostridge was educated at the University of Oxford and was well known as a British writer and critic. The main idea of his novel was that Nightingale was a very influential women and a very interesting one at that. In his novel he discussed her childhood and where she came from, her education, and of course her career as a nurse. This book was not specifically used on the website, but rather as a source of background knowledge on Nightingale, the very powerful and prominent nurse of her time and in modern nursing today.
“Florence Nightingale (1820-1910).” British Broadcasting Corporation. January 11, 2014. Accessed January 11, 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/nightingale_florence.shtml.
This source is a well known and recognized as an educational and credible website. The site provides accounts of many different historical events and influential people in history, as well as many other historical items of importance. The main idea of the page on Florence Nightingale was to get across the point of what a powerful and amazing women Nightingale was. The source was short but to the point giving the reader information on Nightingale’s childhood, her training as a nurse, and the nursing school that Nightingale started to educate future nurses. The information from this website was used in the project in the parts about Nightingale’s major contribution to the medical field as well as on the section giving background information and an introduction on Nightingale to the viewer of the final project. In conclusion this source was very useful and beneficial to the research conducted on Florence Nightingale.
“Florence Nightingale.” School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St. Andrews, Scotland. January 16, 2014. Accessed January 16, 2014. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Nightingale.html.
This website is run by a University in Scotland, one that is particularly devoted to Mathematics. Nightingale herself was particularly interested in the mathematics field and actually begged her parents to allow her to get a math tutor. This source was very interesting and easy to understand. The website gave a lot of information on Nightingales influence in the Crimean War, her struggles to have sanitation reforms in hospitals in order to benefit a patients outcome, as well as it gave information about the statistics that Nightingale collected on mortality rates of patients. Those are only a few of the many things this source touched upon. The source was specifically used when talking about Nightingale’s role in treating wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, the many honors she received, and her strong focus on sanitation conditions and improving them, on the website created about Nightingale.
Gill, Gillian. Nightingales. New York, NY: The Random House Publishing Group, 2004.
The novel is about the Nightingale family, as its title suggests. Gill is a well known author who specializes in biographies. The main idea of this book is to educate the reader about the Nightingale family. The text discusses many things from the privileged lives the Nightingales led to the dispute Florence Nightingale had with her parents, particularly her mother about her dream of becoming a nurse. This text was used in the website to educate the reader on Florence’s struggle with her parents to pursue higher education, particularly in mathematics, and to become a nurse. This source was very interesting and educational.
Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing. Princeton New York London: Brandon/ Systems Press, Inc., 1970.
The main idea of this text written by Florence Nightingale, the Mother of Modern Nursing, was to share her findings from her days in the nursing field with future nurses. In her text she talked about sanitation problems in different hospitals, what patients should be fed while being treated, different observations she made as she treated various patients, and many other insightful information she had come across in her experience. One of the ways this text was specifically used in the website was on the page about Nightingale’s Mistaken Practices. Nightingale was a firm believer in the Miasma Theory, or the theory that disease was caused by bad air. In modern medicine this theory has been put to rest and many other disease causing agents have been identified accurately. In conclusion not only was this source extremely interesting to read and get a perspective of what times were like when Nightingale was a nurse, but also very educational when learning about the nursing field during the mid to late 1800s.