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Florence Nightingale at First Hand

2012· article· en· W303250707 on OpenAlex
C. Brad Faught

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Bibliographic record

VenueAnglican and Episcopal history · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNursing
TopicNursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiographyHistoryClassicsArt historySociology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Florence Nightingale at First Hand. By Lynn McDonald. (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010, Pp. xv, 197. CN $24.95); Florence Nightingale's Suggestions for Thought, Volume 11 of the Collected Works of Florence Nightingak. Edited by Lynn McDonald. (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008, Pp. xiv, 794. CN $150.00.) Justly famous as the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale's fame has endured from the 1850s until today. The two books under review here provide ample evidence as to why this should be so. As both author and editor Lynn McDonald has spent much of her professional career probing virtually every aspect of Nightingale's ninety years of life. And what an amazingly productive life it was, which Nightingale's sixteen-volume Collected Works - edited principally by McDonald - makes clear. But if the received public image of Nightingale continues to be that of the Lady of the Lamp, then both her own Suggestions for Thought and McDonald's short biography - published to mark the centenary of Nightingale's death - show her to have been a hard-headed, clear-thinking reformer, in addition to a heroic nurse. Born into wealth and social standing, Nightingale was raised to be an English gentlewoman. But in 1836, at the age of sixteen, she received a call to diat changed her life. The kind of service she had in mind was that of nurse. Her parents, however, would not allow it. Nursing was then the province of the lower classes and as such it was regarded as wholly unrespectable. Eventually, and despite the social opprobrium in which nursing was held, young Florence was allowed to travel to Germany and France in order to both observe and gain practical nursing experience with Lutheran deaconesses and Roman Catholic nuns. Following these experiences she was determined to devote herself to the nursing vocation. Her persistence finally convinced her father to bestow upon her an annuity in 1853, which she used to become the superintendent of a small hospital for women of means in London. While there Nightingale quickly turned herself into a knowledgeable nursing practitioner, with a keen eye for modernization. By 1854, her reputation in the field was such that she was asked by the British Government (she volunteered at approximately the same time) to travel to the Barracks Hospital at Scutari to see if the appalling mortality rate of Britain's Crimean War solthers could be reduced. …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.184
Threshold uncertainty score0.554

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.234 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it