Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole – Flashcards
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What brought these two nurses to the public's attention?
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Horrific conditions during the Crimean War
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What did Nightingale bring to nursing?
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Discipline, professionalism
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What did nursing have before Nightingale?
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Very bad reputation
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What did Nightingale become a Nurse despite?
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Opposition from her family
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When did the Crimean War break out?
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March 1854
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What got stories home fast?
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Telegraphic communication
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What did telegraphic communication encourage?
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Opinions and comment
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What emerged about the Barrack Hospital in Scutari?
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Horror stories
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Who requested that Nightingale went to Scutari?
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Sidney Herbert, Secretary of War
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How many nurses did Nightingale take with her?
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38
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How much did Nightingale reduce the death rate from?
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42 to 2
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Why was death rate reduced by Nightingale?
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Ward hygiene
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What did Nightingale use her fame to do?
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Change the face of nursing forever
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What was Nightingale's book called?
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Notes on Nursing
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What was Notes on Nursing?
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Standard textbook for generations of Nurses
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How much did the public raise for Nightingale to train nurses?
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£44000
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What did Nightingale set up?
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Nightingale School of Nursing
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Where was Nightingale School of Nursing?
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St. Thomas' Hospital, London
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What were important in the school of nursing?
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Discipline, attention to detail
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By 1900 how many trained nurses were in Britain
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64000
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What act was introduced in 1919?
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Registration of Nurses Act
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What did the registration of nurses act make?
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Training compulsory for nurses
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What happened in 1960?
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Men were admitted to the royal college of nursing
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Who did Mary Seacole learn nursing from?
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Mother
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What did Seacole's Mother run?
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Boarding house for invalid soldiers in Kingston, Jamaica
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When did Seacole come to England?
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1854
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Why did Seacole come to England?
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To volunteer as a nurse in the Crimean War
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Why was Seacole rejected?
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Racist grounds
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What did Seacole do after she was rejected?
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Went anyway, paid her own passafe
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How did Seacole finance herself?
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Selling goods to soldiers and travellers
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What did Seacole do?
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Nursed soldiers on the battefields and built the British Hotel
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What was the British Hotel?
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Hospital, shop and canteen for the soldiers
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What couldn't Seacole find after the war?
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Work as a nurse
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What did Seacole receive because of press interest?
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Support
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What did Seacole write?
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Autobiography
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What did the troops call Seacole?
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Mother Seacole
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Did Seacole meet Nightingale?
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Yes
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Did Florence invite Seacole onto her team?
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No
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What magazines did Seacole receive sympathy from?
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The Times, Punch
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What was organized for Seacole's benefit?
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4 day festival
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What rules did Florence bring in?
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Privacy for amputation, clean sheets, good food
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What did Notes on Nursing include an extra section on?
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Looking after babies
