Florence nightingale video biography of thomas
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Teacher Notes
Questions to consider whilst watching the film
Depending on the focus of your lesson, you may wish to ask the following questions after the video, or pause the short film at certain points to check for understanding.
- Why it was such a shock to her family what Florence Nightingale wanted to do?
- How did Nightingale want to change the way nurses were trained?
- Which event gave her the opportunity to be a nurse?
- What were conditions like when Nightingale arrived at Scutari, and what changes took place?
- How may she have been regarded differently by the nurses, and by the soldiers?
- What happened when she returned to England?
- Why is Florence Nightingale remembered today?
- Does she deserve to be famous?
- What lessons can we learn from the life of Florence Nightingale?
Learning activities to explore after the video
History is a subject which can lend itself to a wide range of cross-curricular links. As a teacher, you will have a greater awareness of how this topic may act as stimulus for learning in other subjects. However, the suggestions below relate solely to ways of developing the children’s historical knowledge and understanding. Key Question: Why is Florence Nightingale historically significant?
Concept of historical significanceOne of the least
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About Florence Nightingale
Famous for being the ‘Lady with the Lamp’ who organised the nursing of sick and wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale’s far-sighted ideas and reforms have influenced the very nature of modern healthcare.
Her greatest achievement was to transform nursing into a respectable profession for women and in 1860, she established the first professional training school for nurses, the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas’ Hospital.
She campaigned tirelessly to improve health standards, publishing over 200 books, reports and pamphlets on hospital planning and organisation which are still widely read and respected today, including her most famous work ‘Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not’.
Florence’s influence on today’s nursing ranges from her ward designs (known as Nightingale Wards), which were developed in response to her realisation that hospital buildings themselves could affect the health and recovery of patients, through to pioneering infection control measures and the championing of a healthy diet as a key factor for recovery. Florence also believed in the need for specialist midwifery nurses and established a School of Midwifery nursing at King’s College Hospital which became a model for the
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Florence Nightingale - after description Crimea
This recording covers: Florence's life afterwards the Peninsula War, depiction report she published put on air her experiences there ground the foundation of Send off for Thomas' Polyclinic and rendering Nightingale Habit school result in nurses.
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