The Real History Of Florence Nightingale | The Lady With The Lamp

[@kazoolibra7322]

As a retired nurse with an strong interest in history I loved this. I have even been to this museum!!!!

[@evelyn7881]

I never saw this lamp. As an old school retired nurse, l have a ceramic duplicate of Nightingale's " lamp" or so l always thought. Interesting to view the real one. The Great lady with the Lamp. Thank you.

[@residentelect]

@Kazoo libra & Evelyn Thank you both for your service. I hope you are both enjoying a very well deserved retirement. From a fellow healthcare professional x

[@kazoolibra7322]

@@residentelectthank you!!

[@georgielancaster1356]

The thumbnail? illustration of Florence is to me, a very close image of the late actress Geraldine McEwan. I loved her work.

[@Bar-Hillel]

Flo was no nurse. She was an administrator.

[@bigideasthescholar]

I’m a nurse and in nursing school I heard about Florence Nightingale but I never really knew what she actually did. This was incredibly enlightening and, in particular, her religious calling is inspiring to me. Thank you so much for this glimpse into her life and her work that changed the world!

[@Bar-Hillel]

You still don't as she was not a nurse at all. Her contribution to our profession was FAR beyond actually nursing anyone, but you need to read her own writings to really know what she did.

[@monicacall7532]

What a fantastic video! The Nightingale Museum absolutely needs to be funded. What a fantastic resource for Brits and everyone else. I enjoyed the fact that the presenter got out of the way and let Dave and Amber do most of the talking while she asked only questions to clarify what they were saying. Clearly these two people are passionate about Florence Nightingale and the monumental contribution she made to medicine. Surely there must be a wealthy donor(s) or government entity to sponsor this museum! Nightingale changed nursing all over the world. Clara Barton who was the most famous nurse during our American Civil War (and who founded the American Red Cross) and Dorothea Dix (another hospital/medical care reformer) used the principles that Nightingale promoted to vastly improve the conditions for and the nursing of the sick and wounded soldiers during that war. Bravo Florence and for History HITT TV making this wonderful documentary.

[@jorgegiacchetti8719]

hello, i'm Jorge, a pilot from Lima peru, working with LATAM airline. i came across your page here through the utube suggestion for me so i thought to write to you. where are you from? Write me when you can and do have a nice day and may God bless you .

[@susannjarvis5587]

What a fantastic museum.And such an excellent "guide," with incredible knowledge of the museum's objects and the story of Florence Nightingale And what an amazing woman she was to have persevered and to have made such a huge impact into the world of health and healthcare. Thank you History Hit.

[@jorgegiacchetti8719]

hello, i'm Jorge, a pilot from Lima peru, working with LATAM airline. i came across your page here through the utube suggestion for me so i thought to write to you. where are you from? Write me when you can and do have a nice day and may God bless you .

[@jamesrogers5277]

Applause for David Green - very good to listen to you, sir - a wonderful story you told so well.

[@davewilson9738]

An amazing woman. humanitarian and human being. We still need women like her today and to hear her voice over 100 years later is remarkable. And as nation we need to fund this museum.

[@mindmedic9435]

As a nurse, of course I appreciate and admire her contributions to nursing, but I am glad the uniform has changed.

[@evelyn7881]

Amen

[@poopfeast-kg1lv]

🙄

[@georgielancaster1356]

I was writing to an old lady who had begun training during WW2 and the faffing headwear THEN, with so many pleats, all starched and ironed to perfection! That was around 1942. A total bore. Meals taken and seating by seniority. Matrons sitting on a dais. When the senior staff left, all rose until they left... You did not speak unless addressed, unless it was a question about a patient.

[@rozhunter7645]

I was trained by old school nurses, they were very strict but the best nurses I ever knew

[@newgabe09]

Excellent presentation. What a great chap working at this museum.

[@Z8ch8riah]

Well said 👏👏

[@ArrDee49]

I began nursing, after several years as a sailor in the Royal Australian Navy, in the 1970's; as a man, I faced numerous obstacles. Most being of a discriminatory nature. I initially trained as an enrolled nurse in New South Wales, Australia, at a dedicated children's hospital. More than a decade later, I went on to be educated/train in hospital based general nursing, in the UK, ultimately becoming a registered nurse. 40 years later I retired. Florence Nightingale was then, and still is, a hero[ine] in my life today. I am proud of the difference I have made to the lives of others, as a nurse; in the shadow of Florence Nightingale.

[@moushka2692]

Congratulations on your perseverance in fighting the prejudice of your times. Forty years is a great career!

[@kazoolibra7322]

Thank you for your service!

[@residentelect]

@robdfortyniner What a fantastic career mate! I was a Medical Technician II, and eventually a flight paramedic with the RAF. We had some amazing male trauma nurses, both reservists from the NHS and full-time military lads who had trained through QARANC. In Aeromedical Evacuation it's the nurses who run the show and I'll never forget some the life and death work both male and female RGNs did. There are thousands of lads from both sides of the Pond, Down Under, all over Europe and in both Afghanistan and Iraq who made it home to their families thanks to the skill and bravery of those heroes. Thank you for your military service and for being a trailblazer in the NHS 👍

[@alanaadams7440]

Good for you

[@sarahcorrigan8059]

My husband is a nurse after a naval career too.. something in the water eh? 😆

[@anti-Russia-sigma]

Florence Nightingale’s legacy is deep & enduring.Thanks for the good & informative show.

[@kakurineuin]

I am still learning English and my vocabulary is limited, but I want to say that she is the historical figure I admire the most.

[@Motion6333]

This is the best documentary ever. Today, tomorrow and after tomorrow Florence shall forever be a hero of nursing indeed she was man of action and of business as she described herself ❤

[@garywilson6047]

A good interviewer is sometimes a quiet interviewer. Well done. Really good.

[@RavenGent]

I'm a big admirer of Florence Nightingale and I read from some sources that at the time of the American Civil War she shared her knowledge of nursing for an army to the US government to help them with their sanitary commission for the army. Even before Ms Clara Barton, Florence was indeed the nurse that started it all for what hospitals are now. I'm currently learning about her in Women's history. She's amazing. I've added her to my history wall. Excellent work, Alice!! 🎩

[@sumitaadam]

OMG !!! What a storyteller .riveted to the screen!

[@i.p.956]

This woman’s compassion resonates through the decades. I learned so much about her from this documentary. I’ll definitely visit this museum!

[@janverboven]

Thanks to her my mum (in Belgium) became a midwife (if you've seen call the midwife - it quite accurate) and a qualified nurse serving at the Antwerp Stuivenberg Ziekenhuis, zaal 12, where people called her after Florence. She gave life to nursing everyone with her bright scientific mind, soft hands, respect for everyone, until she left us. Thanks to the idea that Florence started and has now is a globally more than a respected job. My mum. Thanks Florence..❤❤

[@flowermeerkat6827]

The Florence Nightingale is a wonderful museum. As an adult I found it informative and entertaining and it is a great place to bring young children. It presents Nightingale as a fully rounded human being and puts her in context of her times. A wonderful museum.

[@nursejoshua9081]

Watching as a 1st Year Nursing Student She is one of my inspiration to be a Nurse. Ma'am Florence Nightingale please guide me in this degree in Nursing and help people. I always love you ma'am Florence Nightingale.

[@alanaadams7440]

Good luck if you treat all your patients as if they are your family you will never go wrong from an RN who worked for 37 years

[@s1nb4d59]

One of the best stories told about Florence Nightingale,well done history hit and Alice for the great presentation.

[@phyllisbennett7374]

Brilliant! I knew very little about Florence NIghtengale. Thank you.

[@curtiswebb8135]

Thank you from California in the United States of America

[@DoloresDJesus]

Great information. Amazing that we still apply some of the concepts and principles. Signed, Proud Nurse

[@kariannecrysler640]

Oh goody it’s the hostess with the mostest. Interesting museum. Great hands on interactive feel to it. I was surprised by the lamp. I have always assumed it was the candlestick.😊

[@kimmy2631]

Once again an excellent documentary

[@robertgiles9124]

It's odd they skip the trip to Egypt she made just before the Crimea war. The book Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850 is amazing. One of the best travel books I've ever read. Shows how smart and brave she really was.

[@pamelamoo5306]

I can upon this video by accident on a rainy day on holiday. I would have loved to have gone into nursing but circumstances said otherwise, however I am working in the NHS and have done so for 37 years. The video was very interesting and I would love to visit the museum. I have read several books about her life but learnt much more from your museum curators. You are doing a splendid job. Hopefully now we are through the pandemic that you will get many visitors and the museum will thrive the way it justly deserves. Thank you very much.

[@jorgegiacchetti8719]

hello, i'm Jorge, a pilot from Lima peru, working with LATAM airline. i came across your page here through the utube suggestion for me so i thought to write to you. where are you from? Write me when you can and do have a nice day and may God bless you .

[@garysmith3173]

As always a wonderful video,thank you.😘🥁🌻

[@maryellencook9528]

As a retired Registered Nurse in the U.S. I found this video very informative. Upon graduation we all recited the Nightingale Oath to do no harm, and our nursing school's emblem was "her" oil lamp. When some of the younger nurses would ask me a question I would respond, "Weelll, Flo always taught us thus and such...". (Totally ludicrous as I am in Texas, but it made my point). Again, thank you for such an interesting, insightful video.

[@joansavage1857]

Thank you Alice, that was so interesting.

[@pjkhunold]

For me, Florence Nightingale always seemed to be a dry and somewhat boring person. The more I learn about her, the more I am fascinated by her personality. The fact that she has a pet owl has me enthralled. Thank you for this fascinating documentary. We needed more "docutainment" like on your fabulous channel here in Germany. BTW: I'm a nurse, too.

[@evelyn7881]

She was a brave and trailblazing person. Can you imagine a woman of her time , rich, sheltered, going to a totally different invironment, in WARTIME, to help wounded soldiers??

[@CatsandKittensRescuer]

Great one Alice! I didn't know all that. I really admire her.

[@Emthe30something]

Glad to see in the description that with this filmed in 2020 that the museum has since reopened.

[@starfishsignal]

Omg that poor owl probably died of a broken heart thinking it was just abandoned in the attic.

[@rodeastell3615]

Excellent video ... thank you for posting.

[@vincewhite5087]

An amazing woman.

[@ukpauline3212]

Excellent documentary.

[@illustrebuenavista5693]

Excellent. Speakers Alice and David make it very interesting.

[@david6532]

Amber is awesome so interesting and positive

[@pheart2381]

That tiny medicine chest! Hospitals fling disinfectant around like confetti these days,and the buildings still arnt that clean.

[@udalimb384]

I did a report on her in grade school. What stands out is her realizing there was a correlation between injured vets dying when in a certain bed. The bed adjacent to a tunnel where disease lingered. It's vague as that was decades ago.

[@sarahgeloneck4857]

I’m an EMT/LPN (that’s a licensed practical nurse in the US. Same as the former state enrolled nurse in the UK). My mother and godmother were/are both nurses, and made sure I knew the history of Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton. I’d love to see this museum!

[@twitchbiddy6880]

Florence Nightingale has always been one of my heroes ever since I read her story in a Lady Bird book as a child. The pictures always fascinated me. I read a biography of her as an adult and that served to strengthen my admiration of her and what she was able to achieve. I will definitely visit her museum if I ever get back to the UK. Thanks for this episode.

[@АнастасияГорбунова-в3ц]

Thank you for this video! What a great woman she was! I wish every one of us could use our gifts and talents (recognize them first) for greater good!

[@Smartiebob317]

Very interesting and informative. You would think with modern day technology we could enhance her voice to its true sound. Thank You 🙏🏻.

[@jws1948ja]

It is hard to be a good nurse. I have been ill for most of my life, and I have encountered many bad nurses,

[@Kimbleslind]

My family are descendants of Florence Nightingale, but the funny thing is, none of us have ever pursued a nursing career!

[@adamtalbot7567]

It was a real help thanks.

[@brett76544]

I can remember my mom getting Letters, and other stuff that belonged to FN as a present. We almost lost them 3 years ago in a fire.

[@laurahunter1690]

The village I’m from in NB was named after Florence Nightingale. Florenceville NB Canada

[@jorgegiacchetti8719]

hello, i'm Jorge, a pilot from Lima peru, working with LATAM airline. i came across your page here through the utube suggestion for me so i thought to write to you. where are you from? Write me when you can and do have a nice day and may God bless you .

[@laurahunter1690]

@@jorgegiacchetti8719 Canada

[@TranquilWaters-m9w]

Thank You ❤

[@happydog4929]

Very good, thank you

[@MD11339]

Fabulous video. I visited the Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas Hospital several years ago, I found it a wonderful tribute to her and all the contributions to the Profession of Nursing. As a critical care nurse from Boston, Massachusetts USA, I felt such a sense of pride going through the museum and learning so much about her. Thankyou for such a wonderful video and the ability to visit the museum again. I am yearning a trip back to London and would love to revisit……….has the museum reopened now in October of 2022 and if not, is there a date to reopen in the near future? TIA

[@hayhelros3]

Nursing research at it's finest.

[@MaryannRingSpencer]

Florence Nightingale is my idol. She visited our Maltese Islands twice and I have written a historical fiction book that weaves together the lives of Florence Nightingale and Dr. Salvatore Luigi Pisani a Maltese brave doctor who worked alongside Florence at the Crimean War. The Book's name is 'Villa Sans Souci', the villa (mansion) of Dr. Pisani.

[@baylorsailor]

Poor owl. Not sure why the host found that story so funny. It's heartbreaking actually. Seems she finds everything funny. Very awkward.

[@pup1008]

I've been thinking about the owl all night! Poor thing! Why would they throw things at it? And then it ends up stuffed up in the loft to die? 😕

[@coreenbrubaker4411]

I would love to see something about Dorthea Dix, the nurse who stated that reform was needed in mental health in facilities. M

[@ayanuaymalo1073]

Florence nightingal is good base for today nursing

[@katherinecollins4685]

Very well presented

[@susanvinson2667]

I love hearing about the woman who founded the school my mum attended.

[@2011littlejohn1]

I have just watched the 1951 film of her life and it seems the movie was factually correct as it showed all the aspects of her career as presented here. The film cleverly contrasted the life style of the establishment with the squalor and bad conditions of hospitals she fought to be made better places for the care of wounded soldiers and later the general public. It was quite moving and very tastefully and honourable presented with no compromise regarding portraying the attitudes - both sexist, racist and classist which were the obstacles this amazing woman had to overcome. She reminded me of my mother who was well educated, an instinctive philanthropist and cared for people and animals all her life and practised gender equality by never acknowledging any logic to barriers against female emancipation. She too dedicated her body to science. Ironically she died on Christmas day and the red tape of modern medical establishments prevented this happening. However she had also separately left her eyes to the Eye Infirmary at Sunderland and they did not care about the festive inconvenience and came for her eyes. The nurse said to us all ''You can be consoled that she has given someone a wonderful Christmas gift - that of sight.''

[@Khatoon170]

Thank you for your wonderful cultural dictionary channel we appreciate your efforts as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English language I gathered main information about this great woman Florence nightingale she gained nickname ( lady of lamp) during her work as scthri the time reported that at night she would walk among beds checking wounded men holding light in her hand . She is founder of modern nurses ( born in 1820 - died in 1910 ) she was British nurse social reformer and she came from wealthy background born in Italy named after city of her birth . Interesting facts about her hospital became clean thanks to her . Royal Red Cross medal was award to Florence. She helped in Crimean war . She first nurse in history as professional nurse . The nurse day celebrates annually around world every 12 of May its anniversary of Florence nightingale birth . She was combined , Christian ideal and strict and discipline when she was working. Stay safe blessed good luck to you your dearest ones happy fall .

[@hayhelros3]

Retired RN who sent this to friend from Nursing school.

[@Bar-Hillel]

As a nurse I am appalled that a history channel and, worst still a museum, would claim Flo was a nurse! She was nothing of the sort, she was an administrator and a very fine one at that, but she could not nurse to save herself, as her own diaries show. She drove those who had the training of the day nuts when she tried to help, but what made her so beloved was her fight for better conditions and proper nursing for the soldiers. She was a woman ahead of her time, but do not obscure what she DID do by what she did NOT.

[@kobirelf97]

And they even named the pop up COVID hospitals after her

[@rikspector]

Queen Victoria had a lot of blood and grief on Her hands, supporting the Opium trade amongst many other questionable endeavors, so having a Florence Nightingale perhaps assuaged Her guilt in some way. Cheers, Rik Spector

[@judithsullivan9703]

I've been a Nurse and then a Nurse Practitioner for oh.....27 years... I've done medicine in rural Alaskan bush villages and often though of Florence in the difficult traumatic places she practiced. I've been challenged in some poverty striken villages but figured out how to create what I needed to succeed. Lots of trauma and accidents but I survived and my people enriched my life profoundly. I just wish the presenter was a nurse. But alas we can't all be so lucky 😊

[@bclare2544]

Very interesting.

[@jorgegiacchetti8719]

hello, i'm Jorge, a pilot from Lima peru, working with LATAM airline. i came across your page here through the utube suggestion for me so i thought to write to you. where are you from? Write me when you can and do have a nice day and may God bless you .

[@Wolfietherrat]

Mary Seacole is a pretty interesting nurse in the Crimea war also.

[@markswarbrick999]

She was not a nurse. She went to Crimea to open a restaurant selling food and wine to officers who could afford her prices.

[@katenicholewallbeoff9376]

I am even interested in history and it’s so fun I don’t wanna laugh about it❤️🧐🎀🎀

[@aldoreydeza]

Visited her grave at East Wellow Hampshire last week.

[@eliotreader8220]

didn't know that the real lamp looked different from its fictional appearance

[@iristaylor-j2g]

Nurses today can benefit from a Florence Nightingale travelling Scholarship, I spent 8 weeks in New Zealand researching how to monitor the quality of care we give having received answers like 'We receive lots of thankyou cards' when I was preparing my application. Do apply, it will change your perspective to travel and observe different practices. Thirty years on I'm still in touch with the New Zealand friends I made and remember finding a stone from Florence Nightingale's home framed in the Nurses Home in Invercargill!

[@natalieeis9284]

The story about the owl is so sad. 😢 I really didn't like her laughing at that. Psychopath do that

[@Chipoo88]

Brilliant

[@alexwilliamson1486]

Fact, quite a few of the original nurses who went to the Crimea were sent back home, ranging from thieving to alcoholism!

[@johnmcclain5972]

The hospital administration in her time sound much the same. It is not about the patients but the cash flow.

[@chrisbond7324]

Alice is definitely a cutie never saw her like that😊

[@cartoonraccoon2078]

I'm pretty sure that belongs on a shelf in Warehouse 13.

[@nataliya2641]

Subscribed.

[@JohnyG29]

She was a heroine. The chap keeps saying the war went badly, but the Allies won and the Russians lost, how were the Russian medical facilities?

[@monicacall7532]

Absolutely abysmal. Medicine in Russia was seriously behind the times.

[@firminofire9895]

So when mentioned the owl was being miss treated the lady is weirdly smiling and when it dies she laughs giggles! She’ll probably run the country one day!!

[@jws1948ja]

Her greatest achievement was her use of statistical data.

[@harrisonnightingale6600]

I may have the same last name, but that doesn't mean I'm related though it would of been cool if I was so I could brag about it

[@sandralauzon9416]

The character portraying Florence could have been shown as being more pious and reserved.....this one is a little over the top.

[@hydrolito]

If people had injured owl internal injuries might have still caused owl problems that sister couldn't do anything about.

[@London-Lad]

Why don't you do one for the painfully underrated Mary Seacole?

[@cherry-vz5kx]

Maybe because she wasn`t a nurse.

[@nickmiller76]

Surely some mistake, perhaps you meant to say painfully overrated?

[@rikspector]

Why isn't the NIghtingale Museum a National Treasure? It's so sad. Cheers, Rik Spector

[@trikishasarden2566]

She died in 1910 and 7 years later my father was born he was 69 when I was born he would have been 107 years old today

[@sandraswannell4170]

Doctors today still produce a document where they swear to do no harm.

[@bazza945]

Florence Nightingale became an invalid and recluse in her later years. This may have been PTSD, brought on by her experiences in the Crimea.

[@lizzy66125]

@Barry Munro,actually she was on of the first ever people to contract M.E (Myalgic Encephalomyolitus.

[@unwoke1652]

To the Anglophones: it is Krim-ea, nothing to do with crime. Krim, ja.

[@crystalharris7394]

💗💗💗

[@jorgegiacchetti8719]

hello, i'm Jorge, a pilot from Lima peru, working with LATAM airline. i came across your page here through the utube suggestion for me so i thought to write to you. where are you from? Write me when you can and do have a nice day and may God bless you .

[@jamiejones8508]

Erm Parthenapae?!? We need to know!

[@kerrymti1151]

The curator is very well spoken and knows his stuff. Is this the first assignment for that "host"? It was difficult to watch with her giggling inappropriately and squirming around like she was uninterested and wasn't listening to a word he was saying. She really does need a bit more guidance...in my personal opinion. Great video, due to the museum curator.

[@PJay-wy5fx]

I feel the same. She does not know how to 'dose' herself, her energy, the fidgeting. It's all a bit much and it gets in the way of the acutal subject of the videos hosted by her. In this one we have the curator do most of the talking, but other videos presented by this lady I had to stop because of her voice being very loud and shrill a lot of the time, even though I was interested in the subject itself. In this video there is a good example of this at 7:52, at the interval where the voice over starts. It's partially poor sound editing, but even then, this is not how you do voice overs. It's too bad, because this channel otherwise has a high production value and by the looks of it, ample means. I was introduced to it by the video about life on a ship carrying passengers to Australia in the early 19th century. Hosted by two young men. Very well done. Haven't been able to find more videos hosted by them as of yet unfortunately.

[@PedrSion]

News was getting back to Britain quicker than the news got back to the UK during the Falklands War.

[@JohnyG29]

Unlikely.

[@dianewaterman8805]

My farther in law was the keeper of her grave at west willow church and kept it Klein as it is marble

[@bourne3106]

This is Florence, and here’s her sister Naples.

[@michelletrimbornCapeTown]

Lovely to hear the info but the constant giggling of the presenter is off-putting

[@antonellafinotti6356]

Mia figlia è infermiera professionale, e Florence Nightingale, è sempre stato il suo idolo !!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤