Florence Nightingale
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Sep 11, 2026
Jennifer PainterNARRATOR
I plead for one part of it against the other, for a majority against a minority, for those who are doing what they are paid to do against those who are voluntary workers.
Jennifer PainterNARRATOR
The position comes a little strangely to me when I look at it in this light, but the highly trained, conscientious, painstaking hospital nurse, whose patient heroism proclaims her a true follower of Florence Nightingale, has been exposed to scandalous annoyance for no good purpose and to no useful end, and I feel that I must plead her cause, since she is in the last degree unlikely to plead it for herself.
Jennifer PainterNARRATOR
Society women of a certain class made themselves so notorious in the military hospitals and elsewhere during the South African War that at least one general threatened to send them home, and another refused to allow any more to come out.
Jennifer PainterNARRATOR
As soon as the greatest struggle of our history started in August 1914, certain women of means and position proceeded as silently and unostentatiously as was possible under the circumstances to equip hospitals and to set about their self-appointed work.
Dan CumminsHOST
A woman who once wrote, nursing is an art, and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion, as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.
Dan CumminsHOST
Florence Nightingale is widely considered to be the founder of modern nursing, known as the Lady with the Lamp.
Dan CumminsHOST
This British nurse and social reformer helped drastically improve sanitation and quality of care in hospitals during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Dan CumminsHOST
Florence Nightingale's life and career shifted the Victorian upper class's view on nurses.
Dan CumminsHOST
Anyway, she had an affinity for classifying and recording data.
Dan CumminsHOST
She kept very detailed lists, tables of information such as flower specimens and her seashell and coin collections, a lot of data and all that.
Dan CumminsHOST
Clearly, Lil Flo Rida, I used to call her Flo Rida, had a very, very active mind.
Dan CumminsHOST
When she and her sister went on a tour of Europe, she kept a diary where she recorded population statistics and a number of hospitals, or the number of hospitals and the number of charitable institutions in each of the cities she visited.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
The hospitals were soon filled, and many more died of disease than were killed by the Russians.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
In those days there were very few proper nurses, and the poor sick soldiers were very badly cared for, until a lady called Florence Nightingale Went out to the Crimea, taking with her other ladies as nurses.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
When Florence Nightingale and her nurses arrived in the Crimea, the dirt and horror of the hospitals were dreadful.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
The great wards were crowded from end to end with sick and wounded, dead and dying.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
No one did anything for the poor soldiers.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
Their wounds even were often not dressed.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
They were brought there to die, but Florence Nightingale worked so hard that soon the hospitals were sweet and clean, and the men grew well instead of dying.
Jim MowatNARRATOR
The soldiers loved and adored her, and she never seemed to tire of working for them.
Rob HuttonHOST
It did, I mean, so I think the, the impression of the Crimean War can, today among anyone who has an impression of the Crimean War is-
Duncan WeldonHOST
It's Florence Nightingale, isn't it? And, um-
Rob HuttonHOST
It's, it's Florence Nightingale.
Rob HuttonHOST
It's the Charge of the Light Brigade.
Rob HuttonHOST
And both of these are essentially versions of Britain was, was fighting a bad war badly.
Duncan WeldonHOST
Yes
Rob HuttonHOST
... there's, there are supply problems.
Rob HuttonHOST
Why is Florence Nightingale famous as a nurse? Because she was-
Ella McCrystalHOST
I
James CollierGUEST
did a long time ago, back when Florence Nightingale was doing her rounds, probably.
Ella McCrystalHOST
You've got a vast array of experience.
Ella McCrystalHOST
So to go from dietitian for the NHS to co-founder of Huel, author, speaker, entrepreneur extraordinaire, I would say.
Kevin ClarkGUEST
Originally, a month before being told I had multiple myeloma, they told me I had carcinoma, and they told me I had maybe three months to live.
Kevin ClarkGUEST
uh they it was a misdiagnosis then i had multiple myeloma which told me they told me it would never go away uh but they could extend my life a little uh i did chemo i did a stem cell transplant amy took me through those periods with um Florence Nightingale and Grace.
Kevin ClarkGUEST
And slowly, ever, ever slowly, I started feeling stronger and better.
Kevin ClarkGUEST
My tests started coming back negative, meaning I had no sign of cancer.
HeidiHOST
I think we could get there, but I will definitely pioneer that.
HeidiHOST
I want to be the modern day Florence Nightingale for like spiritual nursing.
HeidiHOST
Do it.
HeidiHOST
You heard it here first, people.
Amy Archibald-VarleyHOST
And you know, it always flows back down to one person.
Amy Archibald-VarleyHOST
Everyone knows the name Florence Nightingale.
Amy Archibald-VarleyHOST
Fewer people know what actually happened inside her own school, on her own watch, and how fast the version she built got twisted the moment hospitals across Atlantic got their hands on it.
Amy Archibald-VarleyHOST
Come on, you know capitalism.
Amie Archibald-VarleyHOST
And you know, it always flows back down to one person.
Amie Archibald-VarleyHOST
Everyone knows the name Florence Nightingale.
Amie Archibald-VarleyHOST
Fewer people know what actually happened inside her own school, on her own watch, and how fast the version she built got twisted the moment hospitals across Atlantic got their hands on it.
Amie Archibald-VarleyHOST
Come on, you know capitalism.
Kimberly OvertonHOST
Bad sanitary, bad architectural, and bad administrative arrangements often make it impossible to nurse.
Kimberly OvertonHOST
That's a quote from Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing, 1859.
Kimberly OvertonHOST
So these problems that plague the nursing industry, they are nothing new.
Kimberly OvertonHOST
But nurses constantly talk about how unsafe this system is for both patients and staff alike.
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