Florence Nightingale to Her Nurses: A Selection from Miss Nightingale's Addresses to Probationers and Nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital (Classic Reprint)

Since Miss Nightingale sdeath, however, heads of nursing institutions and others have asked for copies of the addresses to be read or given to nurses, and her family hope that the publication of a selection may do something to carry further the intention with which they were originally written. Perhaps, too, not only nurses, but others, may care to read some of these letters. There is a natural desire to understand the nature of a great mans or womans influence, and we see in the addresses something at least of what constituted Miss Nightingale spower. Her earnest care for the nurses, her intense desire that they should be perfect, speak in every line. They do not, of course, give full expression to the writers mind. They were written after she had reached middle age, as from a teacher of long and wide experience to pupils much younger than herself pupils some of whom had had very little schooling and did not easily read or write.
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