![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, perhaps surprisingly, some British nurses themselves have suggested they are tired of working in her shadow. Yet as Britain prepares to celebrate Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday on May 12-with a wreath-laying at Waterloo Place, a special version of the annual Procession of the Lamp at Westminster Abbey, a two-day conference on nursing and global health sponsored by the Florence Nightingale Foundation, and tours of her summer home in Derbyshire-scholars are debating her reputation and accomplishments.ĭetractors recently have chipped away at Nightingale’s role as a caregiver, pointing out that she served as a nurse for only three years. She’s the “avenging angel,” the “ministering angel,” the “lady with the lamp”-the brave woman whose name would become synonymous with selflessness and compassion. ![]()
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