Talking Heads: Florence Nightingale and the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary
Rawson, Beth Jo, Morley Dolby, Amy
Rawson, Beth
Jo, Morley
Dolby, Amy
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Florence Nightingale, was from a wealthy, reformist Derbyshire family who kept homes in both Derbyshire and Hampshire. The family's Derbyshire home was at Lea Hurst, near Matlock. She became an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.
She came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night
Between 1864 and 1891 Florence corresponded with William Ogle (1824-1905) Derby’s first Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a longstanding Physician around the redesign of the Infirmary. This video outlines the links the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary has with Florence Nightingale and details the Florence Nightingale collection we have in the UHDB Medical Museum.
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2023-04
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University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation trust