Of course we had heard of Florence Nightingale but we had zero knowledge of her life and contributions other than being a very important nurse. We corrected that in this in-depth episode of her life. Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous women, Briton and nurses in history. She was one of the first feminists and was an actual genius. She had an incredible life and we still her owe a debt of gratitude today. Watch with us as we learn all about this incredible woman simply known as, The Lady with the Lamp! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
Your narrator did a pretty good job relating the life and times of a formidable women from a time when they were generally disregarded. He did make a small error at the end I’m sure only through time constraints of putting his video together. I’ve visited her grave in the small country churchyard of East Wellow. She is in fact interred in a family plot inscribed with the Nightingale name but Florence herself is memorialised only by the simple inscription FN on the stone no dates nothing, in accordance with her wishes. In the humble church there is a little information about their most famous grave including some newspaper articles of the time stating a few survivors of the Crimea war who remembered her kindly were present despite their own great age. I went there with my wife who retired recently after almost 50 years of nursing including all through the covid crisis despite being in her late 60s herself. She too is my hero.
We learned all about Florence Nightingale in Australia in History, in depth. But in Australia, we learned History from many countries around the world...but especially England and America.
What is forgotten by the critics of the UK is all the good things the UK has given to the world. There are so many examples of where we have led the way and others around the world have followed our lead.
You only need look at inventions by British people. The world of today wouldn't exist at all if it weren't for British inventions. And not just technological but medical too. For a small island we punch well above our weight in that respect.
Fast forward to the 21st century.....She would have been sacked for whistle blowing on NHS malpractices, the administration would cover up the story, she would have to go on Tick Tock as an influencer for cosmetic products to make a living and her medical college would be closed and ear marked as accommodation rooms for asylum seekers.
The Brits never seem to stop amazing us in their history and their people. To think that this lady of the lamp set the standard for nursing around the planet which has touched probably all of us at some time in our lives from birth to the end is really mind blowing. Like you we have all heard about Florence nightingale in the Crimea but it is her legacy to the world in what she did after that horrific event that puts her in the halls of the legends. She fought not just for women's rights but for all of us. If she had been a Catholic she would have to be classed as a saint in the true meaning of the word.
You should check out another war time nurse Edith Cavell. She was one of three people who were brought back in the railway van that carried the Unknown Warrior after the world war.
Brunell designed for Floreence, the 'Nightingale flat pack Hospital' made in England, shipped to the Crimea, errcted in hours, providing sanitary wards for 50 patients and much higher survival rates. During Covid, Bristol UK errected a Nightinggale Hospital to help cope. A reminder of how her influence is still saving lives today.
I was an alcoholic for 25 years the Royal Hampshire County Hospital helped save my life. It was initially based in colebrook street then parchment street but due to drainage issues moved to Ramsey road where it is still to this day. And Florence Nightingale advised on the construction I can never forget that wonderful lady because she is still helping to save lives.
My elderly father is in hospital at the moment, whilst visiting him this week he needed to have "a bag" emptied. A press of a button by my father and a jolly, smiling young lady came in and proceeded to do what was needed. All the time she was cheery and chatty with the four family members, plus my father present in the room. I couldn't help feeling a little useless myself and just eternally grateful for the nurses we have in the NHS.
Yes, and no. Yes, we did a lot of good. But no, we had a lot of bad people that came with it. That should have been stopped, but never were because of rank and privilege. Scum often rises to the top. It's a burden we've always had to bear, even today.
@jonathanmaybury5698 Good and bad in British history, yes, and exactly true of every other nation in the world. Yet the contributions of this tiny Island dwarfs that of most other nations.
@@jonathanmaybury5698 Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Franco, Napoleon, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, Colonal Gadaffi, Sadam Hussain, despots and dictators never came from these shores....I think we can proudly hold our head way above all other nations.
Thank you for this. All I ever wanted to be was a nurse. I trained in Glasgow in 1976 and later became a midwife. For the last 38 years I have had the honour to teach midwives at a University here in East Sussex. In 3 weeks time I will leave the profession .There is a degree of sadness but I am so thankful that my working life was spent doing a job that I love . We all owe a great debt to Florence whether she likes it or not.
I'm a retired nurse in the UK. I remember at uni, one of our first lectures was the history of nursing and all about Florence Nightingale. A true inspiration for all of us.
@@flyingfox7854 I'm sorry, I don't see the correlation between nurses recently striking, something I never did because I retired quite a few years ago, and the history of Florence Nightingale and the education of student nurses.
Mary Seacole is also a pioneer in nursing. She was Jamaican born and funded herself, set up hospitals near the first line in the Crimea war (now the modern-day field hospital) She asked to work with Florence and got turned down but they knew each other. I believe Mary Seacole has gallery in London and Trust. We also have Edith Cavell, She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides, without discrimination, and for covertly helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium and return to active service during the First World War, which in wartime was a death penalty offence under the German military law of the Second Reich. Cavell was arrested and court-martialed for that offense as an act of Kriegsverrat ("war-treason"), found guilty, and sentenced to death by firing squad. Despite international pressure for mercy, the German Government ruled that Cavell knew that her acts were punishable; they thus refused to commute her sentence, and she was shot.
I was a nurse for 40yrs in the NHS, I trained in the 70's. The training was strict and Florence Nightingale was to be our role model we were always told. In fact there is to this day the Florence Nightingale Award which is given to nurses for exceptional work. I am retired now but once a nurse always a nurse.
Maria Curie, was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. Discovered: Radium, Polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.
It's indicative of how iconic she is in the UK that when the government opened a number of temporary medical facilities during COVID by coopting buildings and installing equipment they were officially known as Nightingale Hospitals
If you want another unrecognized female genius to popularize, consider Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who was a mathematician indispensable to the development of computing. Charles Babbage did the hardware, so to speak, but Ada did the math that became software. Their Analytical Engine was the ancestor of all modern computers before electricity became a motive force...
Ada was, in effect, the first computer programmer (there was a program named after her). Ada Lovelace (she was married to Lord Lovelace who organised the building of the railway network in Britain) saw - which Babbage did not see - that the calculating engine could be made to do a lot more than just mathematics. She was a visionary.
Although we all celebrate her life, and gasp in horror at the difficulties she had to undergo in her fight against the attitudes of the day, we can never fully understand the frustration she must have felt coming up against the 'little woman' mentality that pervaded society in those days. I'm 74 (still fit, thank goodness) but I remember how difficult it was to be taken seriously, even as late as the 60s, 70s, and even the 80s. So for her, and all the strong women of those days to step outside society norms, it took a special kind of courage and fortitude. God bless those ladies and thank God for them.
This wonderful humble lady inspired me to become a nurse and nearly 50 yrs on i am still nursing It is more than a career,it's a dedication to my patients and a privilege to care for them always. RIP Miss Nightingale you will be remembered and you will never be forgotten because she was and is an inspiration to us all
I would recommend you check out a guy named Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I would be astonished if either of you guys had heard of him. He was really quite a big deal in British history, a true Titan of his age. In my country, if you have any interest in Victorian or industrial history, his name comes up. Him and his gigantic top hat.
I was thinking of him to. I went to see the S S Great Britain in Bristol when I was a child designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I learnt all about him from my father who was an engineer.
I had heard of Florence Nightingale, but didn’t know much about her at all. This really made me sit up and take notice. I have so much respect and admiration for this incredible Woman! Thanks so much Natasha and Debbie, I really enjoyed learning with you ❤
There is nothing as important as good health and, bless her, she gave us a new understanding of how to run the nursing profession and changed the world to this day! 💚🧡💚🧡
Thank you for this video and reaction. Glad that the influence and innovation that FN had in the UK and worldwide is explored. I'm a Registered Nurse, worked in the NHS almost 30 years, thank you also for showing appreciation for all Nurses and Health Care workers.
My grandmother was born in Manchester England mentioned in this upload.My late grandmother was born just before the 1st World War started and was named Florence after this great lady.👌💙
I'm a big fat white guy from the UK, but me and a mate were into the Crimea war when we were kids and we learnt the truth about Ms Nightingale. A human being who just did things which happened to be important.
I worked in a hospital in the UK for many years and they have always had a ward named Nightingale Ward in honour of Florence as do many hospitals. Also the type of long wards with beds on either side are known as nightingale wards.
Nightingale was also the name given to a style of ward layout "Nightingale Wards" based on some of her recomendations. Linier, open plan wards with beds arranged along either side and large windos on each side to allow lots of light and ventilation. Before the days of monitors and nurse call systems, this allowed ward nurses to keep a close eye on their patients. This was pretty much the standard for hospitals until the more recent preference for bay or individual room style layouts.
Seeing this also reminds me of a film you might like, based on a true story, about Gladys Aylward. She was essentially a British missionary in China trying to save children. There's a 50s film about it "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" . Its really good. Its actually on here too.
@@CowmanUK I first saw it when I was about 9, and I'd have never really watched stuff like that at that age, let alone a 2 and half hour long film. But something about it got my attention and it stuck with me. Very captivating.
I understand her feelings, I lost a patient & I continued to keep my others calm in the ward. Later one patient called me an angel. That hurt because I felt like I had failed. Even that one person was important and I felt I failed. I have been in healthcare in many ways ,now I am retired due to ill health. But Miss Nightingale was my hero . On a side note I had an Aunt that went to south Africa and looked after the first heart transplant patient.
Every time you see a bar graph or pie chart, you are looking at a tiny fragment of Florence Nightingale's legacy. Her determination to communicate made her use methods that not even politicians could misunderstand. The Coxcomb graph has only fallen into disuse because it takes serious work to compile, and probably can't be done while listening to the Doobie Brothers Greatest Hits. Not even the Baxter years.
Florence Nightingale is one of many people that were a vehicle for change in the world. What is so remarkable is that she grew up in a time so different from today where she was both female and not very connected in the world. What a character she must have been…
I trained as a UK military nurse in the Queen Alexandre Royal Army Nursing Corps and my first posting was to the Royal Herbert Military Hospital at Woolwich. This hospital was named after Sidney Herbert and the design of the wards, long with high windows and patients in rows of beds down either side, were called Nightingale wards after her design.
ironically the older style NHS hospitals were matriarchal, it was women who were in charge of wards, and the top woman nurse was the Matron who no one would mess with including doctors.
I love you TH-cam videos all about Britain and british history I'm glad you learning about Britain is a beautiful place to stay and I'm sending you love ❤❤❤. 😂
All my friends call me Florence because I’m a nurse, it’s a nickname that just stuck lol. No girls you’re right it’s not an easy job. Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of Nursing. She was given money from Queen Victoria to keep her Hospital funded. Natasha I love the T shirt.
What an incredible lass, she had some unsavoury beliefs, but in the context of the time period she wasn't unusual in that. Her work though is part of the basis of what would later became the NHS, and I owe a massive debt of gratitude for her work because of that. Seacole also deserves enormous respect, she wasn't able to have the impact that nightingale had, but she was another who's work contributed to our medical understanding. For any nurse, doctor, orderly, cleaner, consultant, and any other support staff I haven't mentioned who works in health, and especially in the NHS, thank you, thank you for everything you do, I owe you so much and I have the utmost respect for you and your brothers and sisters in healthcare. ❤
There is an early recording of Florence Nightingale 's voice from 1890 in aid of the British Cancer Society. It's really old and crackly but you can hear the woman herself, it's easy to Google..
Wow! I really learnt a lot from this. Huge thanks to all nurses across the globe, including my two sisters and two nieces, we would all be in a sorry state without your incredible knowledge and care.
Great video good history on Florence nightingale some of it I did not know but I found it shocking what a wonderful woman we can thank her for the nursing we have today around the world funny intro with you two I love the T shirt you had on be kind to animals where you get it from I want one
I watched his video some time ago, but was great watching it again, this time with you guys, and refreshen my memory, Florence, truly an amazing woman, so humble, and someone that we must remember, truly an honourable woman...
Florence Nightingale was one of the first recipients of one of the highest honours bestowed by the Crown - the Order of Merit. The Order was founded by Edward VII as a means to recognize exceptional meritorious service. The Order is given by the King or Queen without advice of any Commonwealth government. Florence Nightingale was the Order’s first female member! As well, Florence Nightingale was the first recipient of the Royal Red Cross. That Order was established by Queen Victoria in 1883 to recognize nursing services to the military.
I started my nurse training in 1971. In those days we had telegrams around and all my parents, grandparents, Aunts & Uncles as well as my siblings sent me telegrams to wish me luck in my career. (Which I still have today). All of them started calling me Florrie. Although later on it was back to my real name of Susan or Sue but my grandfather (my dads father) always called me Florrie. He used to love playing Bridge and on my days off I would come home to my parents but spend an entire day with my grandparents. I was taught how to play Bridge and even managed to win a few games from my grandfather. The day came when my grandfather now in his late seventies was taken to hospital the hospital where I worked. Any free time I spent with him trying to play bridge but he could no longer remember. When he passed I was devastated I loved him so much and I missed him so much. During all my years nursing I thought of my grandfather all the time. I nursed for 41years before I was medically retired aged 58 after fracturing my spine. Next February I will be 70 however I am not sure that I would want to be a nurse today because they don’t bother about talking to patients or even just making a cup of tea. Now they have degrees and once they finished yes highly trained but would never dream of giving out bed pans or washing patients that was down to Health Care Assistances. Yet I always said you find out more about your patient and also be able to completely check their bodies for any sores but also you conversed with them and for many who never had anyone visiting they loved that time. Those were my happy times nursing. I was a senior sister in charge of five department and 40 staff just me. When I left they had to replace me with 3 senior nurses as one nurse could run all the departments as I did.
My maths teacher told us that Florence Nightingale invented the pie chart plus so many visual ways to show statistics. Also her sister was born in Constantinople and was named Constance because of it.😊
What a lady, I did know the story but not the detail, wow. The fact that she didn't want any recognition just shows how great she really was when after and in todays society some people want recognition for things they didn't even do? It's hard to believe these days that anyone wanted to even argue her point of view? I'm a WW1 and WW2 historian and collector from OZ and some of the stories I've read about British high command would send shivers down your spine about them being more worried about being saluted than what is more important (Like winning the war) is beyond believe,...they just didn't care about anyone else except themselves. Great reaction and by the way love your T-Shirt 🤣
The Head Chef of the Reform Club in London, Alexis Soyer, went to the Crimea and worked alongside Florence. He realised that the basic diet for the soldiers wounded or otherwise was lacking in basic nutrition. He encouraged the use of the bones of slaughtered animals to produce a nourishing broth which would sustain the wounded. He also the invented the portable stove that was used in field kitchens from the Crimean war until WW2.
As well revered as Florence Nightingale is, and rightly so, we never show the same willingness to learn about Mary Seacole, a nurse of equal importance during the Crimean War and who had to overcome a lot more adversity being Jamaican. She paid for her own trip to the war because we'd turned down her offer to enlist. Her name should be even more well known than Florence's imo.
There is a voice recording of Florence at her house in 1890, 20 years before her passing. It's only a short recording but very impactful. It can be found online quite easily and I'd recommend looking it up to hear the voice of such a historic figure.
I trained at the Nursing College created her honour in London, The Nightingale Institute. It's now part of King's College, London. I even was awarded a copy of her book, Notes on Nursing, as an award at the end of my training. I am a Mental Health Nurse by profession - one that gets even less gratitude than General Nurses!
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkle is our nurse hero in Australia. The Japanese tried to execute her by way of firing squad after raping her, she survived (her fellow nurses didn't) and got on with her job that day tending to soldiers that were still alive after the shootings. Later she sorted out evacuations of maimed children during the Vietnam war.
Thank you ladies. It's time us Brits stop being modest , polite and humble and declare “we gave you the best life you could have and ask for nothing in return but respect.
Just under half a mile from my house is a former 18th century country house that in 1862 was turned into a hospital, the layout of which was heavily influenced by Florence Nightingale. She said that "It will be the most beautiful hospital in England." In 1948 it became a maternity hospital and I was born there in 1950. It is now a centre for specialist rehabilitation therapy.
Natasha's T shirt! LOL But agree entirely!....I'd like to suggest the heroine, Grace Darling, who rowed through terrible stormy seas to rescue people...
I remember learning of Florence from a very early age, visiting family friends as a youngster who lived in Holloway about a mile or so from Lea Hurst where the Nightingale's spent much of their time (Derbyshire). Although not knowing all of the story it was still fascinating and awe inspiring. Thank you Ladies for reacting to this story. I have been subbed since you started the channel (just a random suggestion from YT) and I dont think I have missed any vids yet, keep up the good work & all the best - love you both
I really enjoy your reaction videos, firstly because of you two, but also your reaction videos sometimes educate me, on people an places that I have some knowledge about, but not as much as I feel I should. Florence Nightingale being a case in point. I knew about the reforms she made but didn’t realise the other things she was responsible for when it comes to modern day nursing
Wow I really enjoyed this video so much. I learnt about Florence Nightingale at school but I'd forgotten so much since then. This was a great refresher, thank you ❤
Although Florence Nightingale set up a nursing school which still provides training today, another nurse Dame Sarah Swift was the founder of the College of Nursing which later became the Royal College of Nursing and she brought nurse leaders together to establish a National Curriculum and Register so that all nurses were trained to the same standard and competence. She during the First World War was responsible for providing nursing services to the military. She was born 22nd November 1854 in a little village called Kirton Skeldyke, a few miles from Boston Lincolnshire and her memorial can be found in Kirton Parish Church.
In Manchester u.k at the local hospital we have the ‘Nightingale centre’. This is for patients as well as their family and friends. They give everyone support and you can just meet up for a coffee and chat to other people going through the same thing. She’s a legend!
What an inspiration she was . She’s most likely the reason why millions of women and now men around the world became nurses. This video is definitely one of my favourites now. Great job again girls. I’ll try to make tomorrow but if not I’ll be back Wednesday!
One other thing she was responsible for was the modular hospital that was delivered to the battlefield as a flat-pack. She worked with Brunel to make the expandable building. The base module could house 400 beds but if you wanted a 1600 bed hospital you could simply bolt 4 together. A similar idea is still used although the materials have changed. It might be worth looking for videos on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a brilliant engineer.
It was not mentioned here, but Florence also had a hand in the design of some hospitals. She it was who first advocated for separate wards for certain conditions and for corridors between them.
Of course we had heard of Florence Nightingale but we had zero knowledge of her life and contributions other than being a very important nurse. We corrected that in this in-depth episode of her life. Florence Nightingale is one of the most famous women, Briton and nurses in history. She was one of the first feminists and was an actual genius. She had an incredible life and we still her owe a debt of gratitude today. Watch with us as we learn all about this incredible woman simply known as, The Lady with the Lamp! Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
You should do a video on Edith Cavell. Now there was a nurse willing to give it all. Also a good old Norfolk girl.
Both my great aunts were spinster Matrons at hospitals
Your narrator did a pretty good job relating the life and times of a formidable women from a time when they were generally disregarded. He did make a small error at the end I’m sure only through time constraints of putting his video together. I’ve visited her grave in the small country churchyard of East Wellow. She is in fact interred in a family plot inscribed with the Nightingale name but Florence herself is memorialised only by the simple inscription FN on the stone no dates nothing, in accordance with her wishes. In the humble church there is a little information about their most famous grave including some newspaper articles of the time stating a few survivors of the Crimea war who remembered her kindly were present despite their own great age. I went there with my wife who retired recently after almost 50 years of nursing including all through the covid crisis despite being in her late 60s herself. She too is my hero.
We learned all about Florence Nightingale in Australia in History, in depth. But in Australia, we learned History from many countries around the world...but especially England and America.
Check out Isambard Kingdom Brunel.The man who created the modern world.
What is forgotten by the critics of the UK is all the good things the UK has given to the world. There are so many examples of where we have led the way and others around the world have followed our lead.
You only need look at inventions by British people. The world of today wouldn't exist at all if it weren't for British inventions. And not just technological but medical too. For a small island we punch well above our weight in that respect.
People like Florence Nightingale are something to be proud of in the UK
Fast forward to the 21st century.....She would have been sacked for whistle blowing on NHS malpractices, the administration would cover up the story, she would have to go on Tick Tock as an influencer for cosmetic products to make a living and her medical college would be closed and ear marked as accommodation rooms for asylum seekers.
The Brits never seem to stop amazing us in their history and their people. To think that this lady of the lamp set the standard for nursing around the planet which has touched probably all of us at some time in our lives from birth to the end is really mind blowing. Like you we have all heard about Florence nightingale in the Crimea but it is her legacy to the world in what she did after that horrific event that puts her in the halls of the legends. She fought not just for women's rights but for all of us. If she had been a Catholic she would have to be classed as a saint in the true meaning of the word.
You should check out another war time nurse Edith Cavell.
She was one of three people who were brought back in the railway van that carried the Unknown Warrior after the world war.
Brunell designed for Floreence, the 'Nightingale flat pack Hospital' made in England, shipped to the Crimea, errcted in hours, providing sanitary wards for 50 patients and much higher survival rates. During Covid, Bristol UK errected a Nightinggale Hospital to help cope. A reminder of how her influence is still saving lives today.
I was an alcoholic for 25 years the Royal Hampshire County Hospital helped save my life. It was initially based in colebrook street then parchment street but due to drainage issues moved to Ramsey road where it is still to this day. And Florence Nightingale advised on the construction I can never forget that wonderful lady because she is still helping to save lives.
Advised on the construction.
@@acommentator4452👍. Is it possible to turn autocorrect off. 😂🤣.
My elderly father is in hospital at the moment, whilst visiting him this week he needed to have "a bag" emptied. A press of a button by my father and a jolly, smiling young lady came in and proceeded to do what was needed. All the time she was cheery and chatty with the four family members, plus my father present in the room. I couldn't help feeling a little useless myself and just eternally grateful for the nurses we have in the NHS.
The British have more to be proud about than to be ashamed of …. ❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸❤️👍
She left her footprints in the sands of life and we are grateful for this.
Well said
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow you ladies should check out Queen. Boudicca next she was a warrior Queen of Britain,
Good video ladies 👍
Not only that, she left her footsteps in front of our house in Pleasley Vale where she used to walk through the picturesque vale. S'true.
The world has got a lot to thank the british for!
Yes, and no. Yes, we did a lot of good. But no, we had a lot of bad people that came with it. That should have been stopped, but never were because of rank and privilege. Scum often rises to the top. It's a burden we've always had to bear, even today.
Hahahaha!
@jonathanmaybury5698 Good and bad in British history, yes, and exactly true of every other nation in the world. Yet the contributions of this tiny Island dwarfs that of most other nations.
@@jonathanmaybury5698 Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Franco, Napoleon, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, Colonal Gadaffi, Sadam Hussain, despots and dictators never came from these shores....I think we can proudly hold our head way above all other nations.
@@richardhumphrey2685 Too bloody right.❤🇬🇧
Thank you for this. All I ever wanted to be was a nurse. I trained in Glasgow in 1976 and later became a midwife. For the last 38 years I have had the honour to teach midwives at a University here in East Sussex. In 3 weeks time I will leave the profession .There is a degree of sadness but I am so thankful that my working life was spent doing a job that I love . We all owe a great debt to Florence whether she likes it or not.
I'm a retired nurse in the UK. I remember at uni, one of our first lectures was the history of nursing and all about Florence Nightingale. A true inspiration for all of us.
Yeah …. But she didn’t go on strike for more money ….
@@flyingfox7854 I'm sorry, I don't see the correlation between nurses recently striking, something I never did because I retired quite a few years ago, and the history of Florence Nightingale and the education of student nurses.
And she has her own Museum @ St.Thomas's Hospital in London.
Mary Seacole is also a pioneer in nursing. She was Jamaican born and funded herself, set up hospitals near the first line in the Crimea war (now the modern-day field hospital) She asked to work with Florence and got turned down but they knew each other. I believe Mary Seacole has gallery in London and Trust.
We also have Edith Cavell,
She is celebrated for treating wounded soldiers from both sides, without discrimination, and for covertly helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium and return to active service during the First World War, which in wartime was a death penalty offence under the German military law of the Second Reich. Cavell was arrested and court-martialed for that offense as an act of Kriegsverrat ("war-treason"), found guilty, and sentenced to death by firing squad. Despite international pressure for mercy, the German Government ruled that Cavell knew that her acts were punishable; they thus refused to commute her sentence, and she was shot.
I was a nurse for 40yrs in the NHS, I trained in the 70's. The training was strict and Florence Nightingale was to be our role model we were always told. In fact there is to this day the Florence Nightingale Award which is given to nurses for exceptional work. I am retired now but once a nurse always a nurse.
Her fight carries on today. The NHS owes its life to her.
A true hero of Britain what a wonderful woman she was thank god for people like her
Maria Curie, was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. Discovered: Radium, Polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.
Florence also appeared on the £10 note between 1975 and 1992
In Australia we had Caroline Chisholm on the 5 dollar night and she was also iconic here for supporting immigrant women (She was born in England).
It's indicative of how iconic she is in the UK that when the government opened a number of temporary medical facilities during COVID by coopting buildings and installing equipment they were officially known as Nightingale Hospitals
England and NI
If you want another unrecognized female genius to popularize, consider Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who was a mathematician indispensable to the development of computing. Charles Babbage did the hardware, so to speak, but Ada did the math that became software. Their Analytical Engine was the ancestor of all modern computers before electricity became a motive force...
Wow! I only knew of Babbage....
Ada was, in effect, the first computer programmer (there was a program named after her). Ada Lovelace (she was married to Lord Lovelace who organised the building of the railway network in Britain) saw - which Babbage did not see - that the calculating engine could be made to do a lot more than just mathematics. She was a visionary.
@@marieparker3822It's actually a programming language which is named after her: a language in which one would write computer programs.😮
@@margaretflounders8510 ironically the hardware wasnt up to scratch so only in later years could we prove it worked
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Although we all celebrate her life, and gasp in horror at the difficulties she had to undergo in her fight against the attitudes of the day, we can never fully understand the frustration she must have felt coming up against the 'little woman' mentality that pervaded society in those days. I'm 74 (still fit, thank goodness) but I remember how difficult it was to be taken seriously, even as late as the 60s, 70s, and even the 80s. So for her, and all the strong women of those days to step outside society norms, it took a special kind of courage and fortitude. God bless those ladies and thank God for them.
A hero worthy of the name. Inventing the pie chart to help the thicko generals understand her point. So far ahead of her time.
This wonderful humble lady inspired me to become a nurse and nearly 50 yrs on i am still nursing
It is more than a career,it's a dedication to my patients and a privilege to care for them always.
RIP Miss Nightingale you will be remembered and you will never be forgotten because she was and is an inspiration to us all
Yes, but she wasn’t al all humble.🤣
I would recommend you check out a guy named Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I would be astonished if either of you guys had heard of him. He was really quite a big deal in British history, a true Titan of his age. In my country, if you have any interest in Victorian or industrial history, his name comes up. Him and his gigantic top hat.
They definitely need to check him out.
And Joseph Bazalgette, Lord of the London sewers, another health warrior against disease.
Brunel was always very sensitive about his height he was 5'2-3" hence the enormous hat.
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I was thinking of him to. I went to see the S S Great Britain in Bristol when I was a child designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. I learnt all about him from my father who was an engineer.
What a woman! I’m a retired ward sister in the NHS and we all adored Florence and I loved nursing so much xx 💕
I had heard of Florence Nightingale, but didn’t know much about her at all. This really made me sit up and take notice. I have so much respect and admiration for this incredible Woman! Thanks so much Natasha and Debbie, I really enjoyed learning with you ❤
We love that you learn with us Heather! Thank YOU for being a part of our dysfunctional family!
Thank you ladies, I was a nurse for 37 yrs. I believe Florence Nightingale is every nurse’s inspiration
May I just say, it's a sign of true intelligence being on a constant quest for more knowledge as you two do ❤
William Dampier A Pirate of Exquisite Mind. Never spoken of yet so important.
Proud nurse here appreciating this thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for what you do!! Massive respect ♥️♥️
@@TheNatashaDebbieShow thank you means a lot ❤️❤️ in practice since 2006 and couldn't do anything else
Thank you for all you do you are a fantastic person god bless you
Florence nightingale,is a legend, we should be proud of her.❤
There is nothing as important as good health and, bless her, she gave us a new understanding of how to run the nursing profession and changed the world to this day! 💚🧡💚🧡
I worked as a Care Assistant at St Thomas' Hospital (in London,) from 1989 to 1993.. I worked on an eye ward, then a respiratory ward.
Thank you for all the brilliant work you do god bless you
Thank you for this video and reaction. Glad that the influence and innovation that FN had in the UK and worldwide is explored. I'm a Registered Nurse, worked in the NHS almost 30 years, thank you also for showing appreciation for all Nurses and Health Care workers.
My grandmother was born in Manchester England mentioned in this upload.My late grandmother was born just before the 1st World War started and was named Florence after this great lady.👌💙
A British legend is what Florence nightingale is, the barriers she would of faced back then, just been a women, what a force of nature
I'm a big fat white guy from the UK, but me and a mate were into the Crimea war when we were kids and we learnt the truth about Ms Nightingale. A human being who just did things which happened to be important.
I worked in a hospital in the UK for many years and they have always had a ward named Nightingale Ward in honour of Florence as do many hospitals. Also the type of long wards with beds on either side are known as nightingale wards.
May I suggest you take a look at the sainsbury and John Lewis Christmas adverts over the years. Some of them will have you in tears x
Nightingale was also the name given to a style of ward layout "Nightingale Wards" based on some of her recomendations. Linier, open plan wards with beds arranged along either side and large windos on each side to allow lots of light and ventilation. Before the days of monitors and nurse call systems, this allowed ward nurses to keep a close eye on their patients. This was pretty much the standard for hospitals until the more recent preference for bay or individual room style layouts.
Seeing this also reminds me of a film you might like, based on a true story, about Gladys Aylward. She was essentially a British missionary in China trying to save children. There's a 50s film about it "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness" . Its really good. Its actually on here too.
We'll have to check it out, thanks!
I love this beautiful film....probably seen it a dozen times....another woman standing up for the rights of all people x
That's my wife's favourite film! It's very good.
One of my favorite films. Stars Ingrid Bergman. Filmed in North Wales.
@@CowmanUK I first saw it when I was about 9, and I'd have never really watched stuff like that at that age, let alone a 2 and half hour long film. But something about it got my attention and it stuck with me. Very captivating.
Loving Natasha's T-shirt lol
My mother was a Nurse
I understand her feelings, I lost a patient & I continued to keep my others calm in the ward. Later one patient called me an angel. That hurt because I felt like I had failed. Even that one person was important and I felt I failed. I have been in healthcare in many ways ,now I am retired due to ill health. But Miss Nightingale was my hero . On a side note I had an Aunt that went to south Africa and looked after the first heart transplant patient.
Every time you see a bar graph or pie chart, you are looking at a tiny fragment of Florence Nightingale's legacy. Her determination to communicate made her use methods that not even politicians could misunderstand. The Coxcomb graph has only fallen into disuse because it takes serious work to compile, and probably can't be done while listening to the Doobie Brothers Greatest Hits. Not even the Baxter years.
Florence Nightingale is one of many people that were a vehicle for change in the world. What is so remarkable is that she grew up in a time so different from today where she was both female and not very connected in the world. What a character she must have been…
Florence Nightingale Hospice at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury. is named after her because of a local family link.
There are people who come along and change the world, Florence was one of those
I trained as a UK military nurse in the Queen Alexandre Royal Army Nursing Corps and my first posting was to the Royal Herbert Military Hospital at Woolwich. This hospital was named after Sidney Herbert and the design of the wards, long with high windows and patients in rows of beds down either side, were called Nightingale wards after her design.
At my school in the UK we were all taught about Florence Nightingale she is an icon a true hero.
ironically the older style NHS hospitals were matriarchal, it was women who were in charge of wards, and the top woman nurse was the Matron who no one would mess with including doctors.
I love you TH-cam videos all about Britain and british history I'm glad you learning about Britain is a beautiful place to stay and I'm sending you love ❤❤❤. 😂
All my friends call me Florence because I’m a nurse, it’s a nickname that just stuck lol. No girls you’re right it’s not an easy job. Florence Nightingale was a pioneer of Nursing. She was given money from Queen Victoria to keep her Hospital funded.
Natasha I love the T shirt.
I learned something new from this! Never knew the full story of the Lady with the lamp! Wow! ❤️
What an incredible lass, she had some unsavoury beliefs, but in the context of the time period she wasn't unusual in that.
Her work though is part of the basis of what would later became the NHS, and I owe a massive debt of gratitude for her work because of that.
Seacole also deserves enormous respect, she wasn't able to have the impact that nightingale had, but she was another who's work contributed to our medical understanding.
For any nurse, doctor, orderly, cleaner, consultant, and any other support staff I haven't mentioned who works in health, and especially in the NHS, thank you, thank you for everything you do, I owe you so much and I have the utmost respect for you and your brothers and sisters in healthcare. ❤
Seacole was a racist.
There is an early recording of Florence Nightingale 's voice from 1890 in aid of the British Cancer Society. It's really old and crackly but you can hear the woman herself, it's easy to Google..
I have always been proud of her, and then to find out that I am related to her was amazing. Florence Nightingale is my 10th cousin 4x removed.
Wonderful Woman Of History ❤
I just realised I knew very little about Florence Nightingale, wow what a woman. Thanks for the video N &D
Wow! I really learnt a lot from this. Huge thanks to all nurses across the globe, including my two sisters and two nieces, we would all be in a sorry state without your incredible knowledge and care.
At St Thomas Hospital in London there is the Florence Nightingale museum which is open to the public
I’m proud to say that my great great grandfather worked with Florence Nightingale at Scutari
On the topic of health, take a look at Joseph Bazalgette, who built the London sewers, much of which is still in use.
Great video good history on Florence nightingale some of it I did not know but I found it shocking what a wonderful woman we can thank her for the nursing we have today around the world funny intro with you two I love the T shirt you had on be kind to animals where you get it from I want one
I watched his video some time ago, but was great watching it again, this time with you guys, and refreshen my memory, Florence, truly an amazing woman, so humble, and someone that we must remember, truly an honourable woman...
Florence Nightingale was one of the first recipients of one of the highest honours bestowed by the Crown - the Order of Merit. The Order was founded by Edward VII as a means to recognize exceptional meritorious service. The Order is given by the King or Queen without advice of any Commonwealth government. Florence Nightingale was the Order’s first female member! As well, Florence Nightingale was the first recipient of the Royal Red Cross. That Order was established by Queen Victoria in 1883 to recognize nursing services to the military.
Thank you, ladies, for another great reaction video 😊. Ps...love the t-shirt Natasha 👍
Thank you too!
I started my nurse training in 1971. In those days we had telegrams around and all my parents, grandparents, Aunts & Uncles as well as my siblings sent me telegrams to wish me luck in my career. (Which I still have today). All of them started calling me Florrie. Although later on it was back to my real name of Susan or Sue but my grandfather (my dads father) always called me Florrie. He used to love playing Bridge and on my days off I would come home to my parents but spend an entire day with my grandparents. I was taught how to play Bridge and even managed to win a few games from my grandfather. The day came when my grandfather now in his late seventies was taken to hospital the hospital where I worked. Any free time I spent with him trying to play bridge but he could no longer remember. When he passed I was devastated I loved him so much and I missed him so much. During all my years nursing I thought of my grandfather all the time. I nursed for 41years before I was medically retired aged 58 after fracturing my spine. Next February I will be 70 however I am not sure that I would want to be a nurse today because they don’t bother about talking to patients or even just making a cup of tea. Now they have degrees and once they finished yes highly trained but would never dream of giving out bed pans or washing patients that was down to Health Care Assistances. Yet I always said you find out more about your patient and also be able to completely check their bodies for any sores but also you conversed with them and for many who never had anyone visiting they loved that time. Those were my happy times nursing. I was a senior sister in charge of five department and 40 staff just me. When I left they had to replace me with 3 senior nurses as one nurse could run all the departments as I did.
Very interesting. I learnt a lot of things about her I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know. Thanks as always girls. Love the T-shirt Natasha.
My maths teacher told us that Florence Nightingale invented the pie chart plus so many visual ways to show statistics. Also her sister was born in Constantinople and was named Constance because of it.😊
What a lady, I did know the story but not the detail, wow. The fact that she didn't want any recognition just shows how great she really was when after and in todays society some people want recognition for things they didn't even do? It's hard to believe these days that anyone wanted to even argue her point of view?
I'm a WW1 and WW2 historian and collector from OZ and some of the stories I've read about British high command would send shivers down your spine about them being more worried about being saluted than what is more important (Like winning the war) is beyond believe,...they just didn't care about anyone else except themselves. Great reaction and by the way love your T-Shirt 🤣
The Head Chef of the Reform Club in London, Alexis Soyer, went to the Crimea and worked alongside Florence. He realised that the basic diet for the soldiers wounded or otherwise was lacking in basic nutrition. He encouraged the use of the bones of slaughtered animals to produce a nourishing broth which would sustain the wounded. He also the invented the portable stove that was used in field kitchens from the Crimean war until WW2.
I LOVE your T-shirt Natasha. I 💯 agree with the message!
As well revered as Florence Nightingale is, and rightly so, we never show the same willingness to learn about Mary Seacole, a nurse of equal importance during the Crimean War and who had to overcome a lot more adversity being Jamaican. She paid for her own trip to the war because we'd turned down her offer to enlist. Her name should be even more well known than Florence's imo.
I knew of her but not about her, thxs lady,s fantastic video ❤❤❤
Glad you enjoyed! We're so glad we learned about her
There is a voice recording of Florence at her house in 1890, 20 years before her passing. It's only a short recording but very impactful.
It can be found online quite easily and I'd recommend looking it up to hear the voice of such a historic figure.
Florence Nightingale was recorded on an Edison phonograph on the 31st of July 1890, it’s on TH-cam
I trained at the Nursing College created her honour in London, The Nightingale Institute. It's now part of King's College, London. I even was awarded a copy of her book, Notes on Nursing, as an award at the end of my training. I am a Mental Health Nurse by profession - one that gets even less gratitude than General Nurses!
I recollect hearing a recording of her voice c.1890 in which she remembered her old comrades from the Crimea. Short and full of hiss but it was her!
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkle is our nurse hero in Australia. The Japanese tried to execute her by way of firing squad after raping her, she survived (her fellow nurses didn't) and got on with her job that day tending to soldiers that were still alive after the shootings. Later she sorted out evacuations of maimed children during the Vietnam war.
I’m British and before watching this video, shamefully I knew no more than you did. Thank you for allowing me to learn alongside you.
You might like to look at the story of Nurse Edith Cavell from the First World War. There is a statue of her in central London.
Yes! "Patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone." Can I get an Amen?
Buried in Norwich cathedral.
Thank you ladies. It's time us Brits stop being modest , polite and humble and declare “we gave you the best life you could have and ask for nothing in return but respect.
Just under half a mile from my house is a former 18th century country house that in 1862 was turned into a hospital, the layout of which was heavily influenced by Florence Nightingale. She said that "It will be the most beautiful hospital in England." In 1948 it became a maternity hospital and I was born there in 1950. It is now a centre for specialist rehabilitation therapy.
Natasha's T shirt! LOL But agree entirely!....I'd like to suggest the heroine, Grace Darling, who rowed through terrible stormy seas to rescue people...
I remember learning of Florence from a very early age, visiting family friends as a youngster who lived in Holloway about a mile or so from Lea Hurst where the Nightingale's spent much of their time (Derbyshire). Although not knowing all of the story it was still fascinating and awe inspiring. Thank you Ladies for reacting to this story. I have been subbed since you started the channel (just a random suggestion from YT) and I dont think I have missed any vids yet, keep up the good work & all the best - love you both
I really enjoy your reaction videos, firstly because of you two, but also your reaction videos sometimes educate me, on people an places that I have some knowledge about, but not as much as I feel I should. Florence Nightingale being a case in point. I knew about the reforms she made but didn’t realise the other things she was responsible for when it comes to modern day nursing
She was a great women gave nursing care to the world she gave new skills and experience to other nurses
Wow I really enjoyed this video so much. I learnt about Florence Nightingale at school but I'd forgotten so much since then. This was a great refresher, thank you ❤
Although Florence Nightingale set up a nursing school which still provides training today, another nurse Dame Sarah Swift was the founder of the College of Nursing which later became the Royal College of Nursing and she brought nurse leaders together to establish a National Curriculum and Register so that all nurses were trained to the same standard and competence. She during the First World War was responsible for providing nursing services to the military. She was born 22nd November 1854 in a little village called Kirton Skeldyke, a few miles from Boston Lincolnshire and her memorial can be found in Kirton Parish Church.
Great video ❤ I didn’t expect to be this emotional ❤
We were fighting it in this one too Katy
As a nurse from the UK thank you for covering Florence. When you get the chance really recommend covering Mary Seacole
Yeeeeeea love this breaking nwes, Magic Monday 🤩🤩🤩. I knwe her story. she was and still so inspiring the soul of nurses. Thank you mujeres hermosas.
Thanks ladies loved it.❤
In Manchester u.k at the local hospital we have the ‘Nightingale centre’. This is for patients as well as their family and friends. They give everyone support and you can just meet up for a coffee and chat to other people going through the same thing. She’s a legend!
What an inspiration she was . She’s most likely the reason why millions of women and now men around the world became nurses.
This video is definitely one of my favourites now. Great job again girls.
I’ll try to make tomorrow but if not I’ll be back Wednesday!
One other thing she was responsible for was the modular hospital that was delivered to the battlefield as a flat-pack. She worked with Brunel to make the expandable building. The base module could house 400 beds but if you wanted a 1600 bed hospital you could simply bolt 4 together. A similar idea is still used although the materials have changed.
It might be worth looking for videos on Isambard Kingdom Brunel, a brilliant engineer.
It was not mentioned here, but Florence also had a hand in the design of some hospitals. She it was who first advocated for separate wards for certain conditions and for corridors between them.
Learned a lot from this video as always thank you. What an incredible, intelligent, compassionate strong woman she was!
Seacole did not set up a hospital. She opened a restaurant for army officers.
Seacombe was a racist .