1C Florence Nightingale

Lesson: History

Class: Year 1 - 1C Year: 2021 - 2022

This term in history, we have been studying the work of Florence Nightingale.

We have researched; who she is, where she was from, what she did and how she changed nursing for the better.

From studying her life, we have learned what qualities a good nurse needs such as being; kind, caring, patient, skilled, a good listener, respectful, hard working, resilient and being hygienic.

We have also been able to make comparisons surrounding what both hospitals and nursing during the 1800s and now.

Today, we had a visitor. A real life, modern day nuse who works in Arrowe Park Hospital came into our class to answer the questions that we had raised about what it is like to be a modern day nure. Here are some of the questions we asked; Why did you want to be a nurse? What is it like being a nurse? How did you keep the people safe during the pandemic (this helped us comapre how nursing and hospitals were during the pandemic and the Crimean war), How did you help the patients stay in contact with their families during the pandemic? What do you have to do to become a nurse? 

Lyndsey was lovely, she answered all of our questions in great detail and we will be able to use her answers to compare Florence Nightingale's experiences with a modern day nurse's in our next lesson.