Florence Nightingale and the Nursing Legacy

Monica Baly presents a study of the often haphazard growth of the relationship between Florence Nightingale's nurses and St. Thomas' hospital, with which they became so closely associated. Using the results of research into the records of the Nightingale fund, she produces a picture of a system strained to breaking point in the early years by the conflicting claims of the nurses desire for professional status over nurses and patients alike.