Florence Nightingale in the Age of Covid-19

June 29, 2021

(STAT News) – Last May marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale. That her bicentennial fell during a worldwide pandemic is both illuminating and ironic. Nightingale’s experience as a nurse during the Crimean War in the mid-1850s led her to three insights that came to define her professional life, insights as revolutionary as they were unpopular: Medical care has the potential to do harm. Nurses require stringent and scientific training. Medical care does not exist in a vacuum from the world around it. (Read Full Article)