On Saturday 24 June 2017 a group of 8 members met at Cannon Street Station and took the tube to Westminster to walk over Westminster Bridge for our self guided tour of the Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas' Hospital. As we arrived early and were still waiting for one more member we went to have coffee & snacks in the M&S Café in the hospital. After which we presented ourselves at the Museum and were given sheets to show the layout of the museum and then left to look around at our leisure. Split into 3 areas we first looked at 'The Gilded Cage' detailing her early privileged life 1820-1854. It was in 1837 that Florence received a calling from God which led to her studying nursing. The second area 'The Calling' 1854-1856 saw her travel to the Crimea working to improve conditions in the hospital in Scutari. Lastly the third area 'Return from War' 1856-1910 saw her writing 'Notes on Nursing' which was to become a best seller establishing her as an international authority. Besides nursing she wrote on religion, philosophy, sanitation, hygiene, hospitals (and their pavilion style), statistics and India. She founded the Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St Thomas' hospital so it's fitting that the Museum is located there. Not a large museum but plenty to see and read about with a small shop. After leaving around 1ish a small group of us went off to find lunch and discuss what Florence achieved during her lifetime.
On Saturday 24 June 2017 a group of 8 members met at Cannon Street Station and took the tube to Westminster to walk over Westminster Bridge for our self guided tour of the Florence Nightingale Museum at St Thomas' Hospital. As we arrived early and were still waiting for one more member we went to have coffee & snacks in the M&S Café in the hospital. After which we presented ourselves at the Museum and were given sheets to show the layout of the museum and then left to look around at our leisure. Split into 3 areas we first looked at 'The Gilded Cage' detailing her early privileged life 1820-1854. It was in 1837 that Florence received a calling from God which led to her studying nursing. The second area 'The Calling' 1854-1856 saw her travel to the Crimea working to improve conditions in the hospital in Scutari. Lastly the third area 'Return from War' 1856-1910 saw her writing 'Notes on Nursing' which was to become a best seller establishing her as an international authority. Besides nursing she wrote on religion, philosophy, sanitation, hygiene, hospitals (and their pavilion style), statistics and India. She founded the Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St Thomas' hospital so it's fitting that the Museum is located there. Not a large museum but plenty to see and read about with a small shop. After leaving around 1ish a small group of us went off to find lunch and discuss what Florence achieved during her lifetime.
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