Embley Park – Tuesday 13th August 2024

Anniversary of Florence Nightingale

Please come and let others know!

11 am Coffee in the Parish Rooms of St.Margaret’s Church, WELLOW.

Midday short prayer at the grave side.

12.30 – 2pm An opportunity to view The Nightingale Rooms and picnic in the gardens at EMBLEY.

A badge will be presented to the school.

The calling window in Romsey Abbey is worth viewing and there are plenty of cafes for tea!

This is not a ticketed event, for parking purposes it would be good to have an idea of numbers, please confirm attendance by email to Cecilia Orchard via [email protected]

Florence Nightingale Museum

Florence Nightingale: A Living Portrait

At Cromford Mills, Derbyshire 27th July – 3rd November 2024

For further information visit, Exhibition: Florence Nightingale at Cromford Mills – Florence Nightingale Museum London (florence-nightingale.co.uk)

Personal recommendation – The Mill Managers Tour is informative and fun!

King’s Birthday Honours 2024

UK National Honour

Emma Hammett BEM, RGN

Service to First Aid Training

Emma Hammett is delighted to have been awarded the British Empire Medal in the King’s birthday honours for her outstanding service to first aid training, accident prevention and work trying to reduce knife crime.

With Huge Congratulations from all at

The Nightingale Fellowship

Nightingale Ballet 

For further information go to New Creative Collections website here, Nightingale | NCC (newcreationscollective.com).

May 2024 AGM Day

Recording of the Chapel Service – St Thomas’ Hospital Chapel

May 2024 AGM Day

We were delighted that we were, once again, able to hold our AGM Day at St Thomas’ in-person.

2pm Chapel Service

The Speaker was the The Right Reverend Andrew Zihni, Dean of Gloucester.

The Service was recorded and is available above. It was not live streamed this year.

(Please note the collection was for the Chapel at St Thomas’).

3pm Annual General Meeting

There was a Q & A session with Lewis Allett, Chief Executive of Cavell Nurses Trust.

4pm Tea

Tea is a benefit for Members of The Nightingale Fellowship and was served in Shepherd Hall, so we could all catch up with each other.

This was followed by the Ballet ‘Florence’ performed by New Creative Collections.

RECENT NEWS

The Florence Nightingale Museum

The Florence Nightingale Museum St Thomas’ Hospital 2 Lambeth Palace Rd. London SE1 7EW.

The Florence Nightingale Museum, which is housed in the St Thomas’ Hospital, is devoted to Florence Nightingale, covering her Victorian childhood, her life in the Crimean and her life as an ardent campaigner for health reform.

It is a wonderful place to take your family and learn of her exceptional work.  In the Museum, visitors learn more about the legacy of Florence Nightingale and her impact on nursing today. Highlights in the collection of the Museum include the writing slate she used as a child, her pet owl Athena and Nightingale’s important medicine chest.

Should you be in the area of St Thomas’ Hospital it is well worth a visit.

Please go to: https://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk for further details and opening hours and concessions.

News from The Worshipful Company of Nurses

Members of The Worshipful Company of Nurses are enjoying a full programme of events on line and in person. Many Nightingale Fellowship members already belong and enjoy meeting with nurses who trained across the country. For more information go to The Worshipful Company of Nurses – City of London.

Australia

Lucy Osburn Nightingale Badge Presentation

On 6 February 2024, I was fortunate enough to attend the ceremony at Sydney Hospital. It was the most beautiful sunny day and a great thrill to visit the hospital where I had worked during the 1980s.  This special event was the presentation of the Nightingale Badge to Sydney Hospital in recognition of the pioneering work of Lucy Osburn, the Lucy Osburn Nightingale Museum, and for all the Nightingale Nurses.

Sydney Hospital has historic ties with St Thomas’. Lucy Osburn was from Leeds, Yorkshire and a graduate of St Thomas’ training school.  She was selected by Florence Nightingale, to go to Sydney in 1868, with five trained nursing sisters, to establish the first School of Nursing in Australia on the Macquarie Street site, at what was then Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary (later Sydney Hospital).

Lucy Osburn was duly appointed Lady Superintendent and fought hard, against considerable opposition, to upgrade patient care, based on sound Nightingale Principles. By the time Lucy returned to England in 1884, trained nursing had been successfully established at Sydney Hospital and greater New South Wales.

The ceremony was held in The Claffy Lecture Theatre at Sydney Hospital, Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales. The beautifully framed Nightingale Badge was presented by Gillian Prager, President Emeritus of the Nightingale Fellowship, to Natalie Maier, Director of Sydney Hospital/Sydney Eye Hospital.

It was a very happy and memorable day with a keynote address from Professor Jill White, Professor Emerita University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and University of Sydney (USyd). There followed closing remarks from Natalie Maier and then a wonderful afternoon tea, complete with cupcakes bearing a picture of the Nightingale Badge, and a beautiful cake. Later, there was a viewing of The Lady Superintendent, a short film about Lucy Osburn by the Film maker Meg Collins, also a nurse.

I met up with past nursing colleagues and also some fellow Nightingales, who had made Australia their permanent home, and others who were travelling. We spent a lovely time reminiscing about our nursing careers before retirement.

If you are visiting Australia, The Lucy Osburn Nightingale Museum has an interesting and varied display and a visit to see it is highly recommended. I am sure you will be made very welcome.

Ms Georgina Wingfield, Trustee

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