A Weekend With Florence In London

Editor’s note: The two entries below, written on Saturday and Sunday in London, are the latest in a series of posts by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Senior Adviser for Nursing, Susan Hassmiller, who’s spending her summer vacation retracing the footsteps of Florence Nightingale and reflecting on the implications of Nightingale’s work for nurses today.

Saturday: Westminster Abbey (London)

I arrived in London for my vacation today. They tell me it is uncharacteristically hot (nearly 90 degrees), so that gave me full license to have ice cream . . . not once, but twice! And although the “official” Florence Nightingale tour hasn’t started, I didn’t waste time getting a head start on my quest to better understand the contributions of Ms. Nightingale. […]

2017-04-29T17:29:33-04:00July 12th, 2010|nursing history, nursing research|5 Comments
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The Nightingale Immersion Experience

Susan Hassmiller, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Senior Advisor for Nursing, is traveling through Europe on a tour developed in honor of the centennial of Florence Nightingale’s death. This is the second of two preliminary posts she gave us last week before taking to the skies; click here for the first. Starting later today (so check back this afternoon!) with a first post from London, Hassmiller will report on her trip, what she’s learning, and why Florence Nightingale is as relevant as ever to nurses’ work today. 


I’m still in immersion mode, learning all I can about Florence Nightingale—the “Lady with the Lamp” (a name Wikipedia succinctly explains)—as I get ready for my trip. What have I learned so far? Well, I’m blown away. […]

2016-11-21T13:16:48-05:00July 12th, 2010|nursing history|1 Comment
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