Florence Nightingale must remain as nursing's icon
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Hoole, Louise
- Source
- British Journal of Nursing; February 2000, Vol. 9 Issue: 4 p189-189, 1p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 09660461
There was much debate last year over whether or not Florence Nightingale was an appropriate figure to lead nursing into the new millennium (e.g. Wheeler et al, 1999). A few nobles of nursing history were given cursory attention as possible successors to Nightingales plinth, but Mary Seacole emerged as the only real contender.