You are here:
Home / Archives for Florence Nightingale
No one wants to get sick. Don’t we all wrap up warm in winter to insulate ourselves from the cold and be extra careful around snot-nosed ill people? Only a few of us, though, ever get really serious about it. For instance, have you ever spent a day picking up everything with a tissue? Or [...]
Posted by Kevin Forde on Friday, October 28, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals, Bizarre, Health, Television · Tagged Abigail Breslin, Abnormal psychology, acclaimed writer and critic, adolf hitler, Andy Warhol, charles darwin, disease, Florence Nightingale, fragile writer, Glen Gould, Hans Christian Anderson, hypochondriacs, Hypochondriasis, illness, Jennifer Hudson, Marcel Proust, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, pains, paranoia, Parkinson’s disease, People, Psychology, sickness, St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, the Avant Garde, The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling
In today’s world, nursing is a very popular field of study and a career as a nurse is becoming more and more demanding. However, it took decades for the career to actually gain some sort of credit and recognition. It wasn’t until the 19th century that nursing was truly valued, when many remarkable individuals, mostly [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under History, People · Tagged American Birth Control League, American Red Cross, Army Medical College, Army School of Nursing, Berkendael Medical Institute, bi-racial, British Hospital, British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, catholic church, certified midwife, Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Dix Hospital, Edith Cavell, Florence Nightingale, Frontier Nursing Service, Health, Helen Fairchild, History, Hospital Training School, huge advocate for cleaning and fixing up hospitals, Jamaican women, Margaret Sanger, Mary Breckinridge, Mary Eliza Mahoney, Mary Mahoney, Mary Seacole, Medicine, Midwifery, Military Service for America Memorial, National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, New England Hospital, New England Hospital for Women and Children, North Carolina State Medical Society, nurse, Nurses Associated Alumnae, Nursing, Pennsylvania Hospital, private duty nurse, Red Cross, St. Luke’s Hospital Training School, Teachers College of Columbia University, top 10 lists, top 10 nurses, top 10 women, top nurses, TopTenz, Virginia Avenel Henderson, Virginia Henderson, Yale School of Nursing
Throughout our history there have been women whom without their contributions the world we live in would be a completely different place. Each of these women will be continue to remembered well into the future for the way they changed popular opinion. This being said there are many deserving women who did not make this [...]
Posted by Loni Perry on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 11:29 am
Filed under History, People · Tagged amelia earhart, Christian, Elizabeth, Florence Nightingale, Jane Goodall, jesus, Joan of Arc, Lady, Margaret Thatcher, Marie Curie, Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, nobel prize, People, queen elizabeth I, Rosa Parks, scientists, Top 10 Most Influential Women, Virgin Mary, Women
