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Nightingale and Seacole Compared

Florence Nightingale

  • She was remembered after the war.
  • She spent the rest of her life, after returning home from the war, campaiging for reforms to army medical services and nursing.
  • She became an advocate for improvements in hospital design (Florence Nightingale designs).
  • She came from a wealthy family, and had more financial support.
  • She was not based at the battlefront, she was miles away at Scutari.
  • She cleaned the wards and strove to provide clean,washed bedlinen.
  • She was reported in newspapers in Britain.
  • She complained her work was being undermined and that she didnt get the attention/appreciation she deserved.
  • Divided opinion; had critics and supporter.
  • She had access to influential people.
  • After Nightingale, nursing became a vocation and a profession.

Mary Seacole:

  • She was pracitcally forgotten about after the war.
  • She did not have access to real medical treatment, she used herbal rememedies.
  • Took no part in the post-Crimea discussions & reforms.
  • She went to the Crimea by herself and payed her own way (ticket) - didnt have much financial support and wasnt from a particularly wealthy family.
  • Kept the soldiers well behaved by emposing a curfew at her hotel and a no gambling rule, but also offered them food, clothes, shelter and luxurires, usually at a small price.
  • She went on to the battlefields instead of just remaining far away from the 'action'.
  • Her role is nursing has been extensively revisited and researched, and in 2004, she came top in a poll of greatest black Britons.
  • Plans for a staute of her at St Thomas' Hospital in London caused some discussion, with some historians suggesting that her role is nursing has been overexaggerated.
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