Resources
Nightingale Badge Box
We have had a beautiful leather box designed for your embossed Nightingale badge
“FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE SCHOOL OF NURSING BADGE“
Unfortunately, the badge boxes are currently out of stock.
The Florence Nightingale Museum
The Fellowship has always worked closely with the Florence Nightingale Museum and has given financial support to the Museum’s refurbishment project. The Museum has already raised more than a million pounds towards this project.
If you would like to contribute to the Museum, please contact them directly at: 020 7620 0374 or www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
Florence Nightingale Foundation
Since 1929, the Foundation has been providing scholarships to the best nurses and midwives in the UK who then make a difference to patient care, policy and practice in their chosen fields.
The Foundation’s principal focus is on improving health, clinical outcomes and patient experience, through building nursing and midwifery leadership capacity and capability. It does this by enabling nurses and midwives to access sophisticated and bespoke leadership development opportunities, both in the UK and overseas, tailored to the scholar’s needs.
The bespoke leadership development programmes ensure the Foundation’s offer remains unique and highly sought after. Unlike doctors, nurses and midwives have few opportunities to develop their leadership skills. The Foundation has an excellent record of delivery and all scholars undertake projects which are focused on improving patient care and health outcomes and within two years the majority of them are promoted to more senior roles as a result of their scholarship.
It is important that nurses and midwives are empowered to use their professional voice effectively and seek all opportunities to influence healthcare policy and practice.
Our mission:
To pioneer change and improvements in patient and health outcomes, through nursing and midwifery leadership, honouring Florence Nightingale’s legacy.
Last Summer in Soho
Last Summer in Soho by Jessica Streeting
This fascinating, funny and often very moving novel transports us into the life of Sylvie, a community school nurse working in contemporary Soho, London. Ut’s the summer term and Sylvie is working with her stretched but resourceful team as they strive to serve the diverse children and families who live and work in this extraordinary area of London, so often overlooked as a place where communities live.
Not only is this a brilliant and captivating story, but it also offers us an authentic and rare insight into the lives of London children today and illustrates the enormous importance of school nurses.
Jessica Streeting is an award winning community nurse and teacher, working in central London. In her fiction writing, she evokes the complexities of public health nursing with affection, thoughtfulness and humour. In 2011 Jessica was made a Queen’s Nurse in recognition of her work in one high need London secondary school.
Florence Nightingale at Home
Florence Nightingale at Home by Paul Crawford, Anna Greenwood, Richard Bates and Jonathan Memel
The timely book proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale’s experiences of domestic life, her illness in later years and how ideas of home influenced her writings and pioneering work.
From her childhood homes in Derbyshire and Hampshire, visiting the poor sick in their cottages, to bringing home comforts to the soldiers in the Crimean War and much in between, she was inspired by her Christian faith and later created Nightingale Homes for trainee nurses, acting as mother-in-chief to her extended family of nurses. It shows how Florence Nightingale remains as relevant as ever in her afterlife with her astonishing culture.
Cicely Saunders – the Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement
Cicely Saunders – The Founder of the Modern Hospice Movement by Sherley du Boulay
Three distinct strands are interwoven in the narrative of this book. The vision which led to the foundation of St Christopher’s Hospice. Dame Cicely’s own personal development and painful maturation into a woman of outstanding personality with exceptional gifts and leadership. And thirdly, the movingly romantic story of the three men, all Poles, to whom at various times she gave her heart and who each played a critical role in bringing her plans to fulfilment. It is the story not only of a lifetime’s dedicated work crowned with brilliant success.
My Ward – Wendy Mathews
Wendy Mathews very kindly donated copies of her book ‘My Ward’ to the Fellowship and we thank Wendy for her generosity. We have a few copies still available. Please contact the office on 01285 841908 to confirm availability.
The cost will be £5, plus £1.20 p&p. Please make cheques payable to The Nightingale Fellowship, and send to, The Nightingale Fellowship, 6 Trull Farm Buildings, Tetbury, Glos, GL8 8SQ
Florence Nightingale: the woman and her legend
Florence Nightingale: the woman and her legend by Mark Bostridge who was a speaker at our AGM in 2010
Mark Bostridge has drawn upon previously unknown and unpublished papers (many from the Nightingale family archive) in producing this detailed, informative and highly readable book.
The book covers Florence Nightingale’s family background and gives accounts of her work in the Crimean War and her reforms to nursing and health before turning to explore her role as an icon. This book is a ‘must’ for all who are interested in the history of nursing.
SIDNEY HERBERT
Too Short a Life by R.E. Foster
Christian Philanthropist and Patron of Florence Nightingale, Sidney Herbert was hailed in his own times as a Statesman, administrative reformer and co-founder of the modern Liberal party. Strangely neglected since his death, this biography brilliantly recaptures, through its subject, some of the many paradoxes of Victorian Britain. At once both Irish landlord and ‘one of the most worthy Wiltshiremen who ever lived’, arguably only fatal illness deprived Sidney Herbert of the keys to Downing Street.
‘A man of the most varied and brilliant conversational genius I have ever known.’ Florence Nightingale
‘You are the pleasantest Gentleman in England.’ John Evelyn Denison, Speaker of the House of Commons
‘A man of his qualities . . . must always be without a rival in his generation.’ – W.E. Gladstone
R.E. Foster graduated with a First from the University of Southampton where he also completed his PhD. Since then he has written over 100 articles on modern British history. His previous books are The Politics of County Power (1990) and Wellington and Waterloo (2014). Dr Foster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2005.
Hobnob Press has been publishing local and regional books centred on Wiltshire since 1983, and has been owned by historian Dr John Chandler since 2001. Most titles (currently around twelve annually) are primarily of local interest and do not warrant reviews in national newspapers and journals. The biography of Sidney Herbert, however, in our view makes an important contribution to 19th-century British and international history, and deserves to be widely known and read. Although a small (‘hobby’) publisher Hobnob Press is well-respected for its production quality, and its titles are readily available to the book trade through distributors and online. We very much hope that you will consider reviewing Sidney Herbert; too short a life. If so, please request a copy by email to [email protected], stating the name and postal address to which it should be sent.
A Nightingale Remembers: Rosemary Morris
Rosemary Morris trained as a Nightingale Nurse at St Thomas’ Hospital from 1957-1961 and continued her career in nursing, midwifery and nursing education. In A Nightingale Remembers she humorously paints an insider’s picture of everything she encountered along the way and the skills and lessons she learned. Since then she has published health sciences books and is an administrative director of a classical music company, including helping individuals with vocal and respiratory problems. Published in 2020 by RoseAanna Press. Please note there is a £2.50 p & p charge on all orders. [email protected]
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Strategic Plan FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
The Nightingale Fellowship Trustees have agreed a new strategic plan to the year 2028. Members will have received notice of this in the Spring 2021 journal and can follow this link to the FAQs