Hey Zoe, how was your school trip yesterday?0:08
Wasn't it to a hospital?0:11
We went to the Florence Nightingale Museum next to St Thomas's Hospital.0:14
It was amazing actually.0:19
Florence Nightingale was a nurse, wasn't she?0:21
She was, and maybe the first in the modern sense.0:24
But she was much more than that.0:28
What really impressed me was that she was rich and pretty.0:30
She could have had an easy life, but was shocked at the laziness of women in her class, such as her mum and sister.0:34
Florence wanted to do something with her life.0:43
Then she heard about the poor conditions of British soldiers.0:47
In the 1850s, many died of illnesses, after being wounded in battle because they were left in unhealthy conditions.0:51
Nightingale sailed from England with a group of women to organise clean conditions and decent care.1:01
It must have been difficult, as it can't have been easy for a woman at that time.1:08
You're absolutely right.1:13
At first, she wasn't taken seriously at all.1:15
Some generals tried to get her sent home, But several important men supported her, including an important politician, Sidney Herbert.1:19
The great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed a portable wooden hospital for her that could be set up anywhere in the world.1:30
Nightingale called them 'those wonderful huts'. Later, there was one very important woman who became a fan of Nightingale, Queen Victoria.1:39
She must have had an extraordinary personality if all these people came in on her side.1:49
But Nightingale was very intelligent too.1:56
She was brilliant at using statistics.1:59
She knew how to explain and show facts, particularly to men in power.2:02
Her charts and graphs showed that her ideas were working and saving lives.2:07
She also wrote to newspapers and journalists to spread her message.2:13
Her books sold all over the world.2:17
Was it just soldiers she helped?2:20
No, she was concerned for the poor as well, and not just the English.2:22
She helped to get clean water for people in India.2:27
She also founded the first school of nursing.2:30
To be honest, I felt exhausted just hearing about everything she did.2:34
Perhaps you should lie down and I'll bring you a cup of tea.2:40
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