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Nursing Today
VI. Conclusion
A. The Call to Vocation
B. The Influences: Before and After
C. Nursing, Feminism, Service, and the Male Ego
Reference List
Bloy, M. (2010). Florence Nightingale. The Victorian Web. Retrieved from http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crimea/florrie.html This site gives a good history of Nightingale, her service, and the impact she had on nursing.
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Retrieved from http://www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Series/CWFN.shtml A great source of information for all the written works of Nightingale. You can see the person for who she was in her own words. A wealth of information.
The Florence Nightingale Legacy. (2011). Florence Nightingale International
Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.fnif.org/nightingale.htm Another site devoted to the cause of Nightingale. Deals mainly with her influence on modern day nursing.
Hellman, L. (1966). Dashiell Hammett: A memoir. The New York Review of Books.
Retrieved from http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1965/nov/25/dashiell-hammett-a-memoir/?page=1 Hammett's mistress gives a unique view of the hard-boiled crime fiction writer who met his wife while in a war time hospital -- a good example Florence Nightingale syndrome.
O'Neill, E. (1928).Strange Interlude. Gutenberg.org. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400161h.html Another great example -- this one theatrical of Florence Nightingale Syndrome.
Rehmeyer, J. (2008). Florence Nightingale: The passionate statistician.
ScienceNews.org. Retrieved from http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic/activity/view/id/38937/title/Florence_Nightingale_The_passionate_statistician Some more information on the effects of Nightingale's service on statistical analysis.
Strachey, L. (1918). Eminent Victorians. New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?id=DIJmAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Eminent+Victorians,&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=lTQKTrfOI7CEsAKyuZHSAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=nightingale&f=false A good reference for the life of Florence Nightingale, not too far removed from her own time -- the perspective is timely and fresh......