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Let's hear it for the health heroes! From Florence Nightingale to today's midwives, doctors, paramedics, carers and more, this book is packed of true stories of healthcare workers past and present, all around the world. Including famous names and unsung heroes, these are real people being amazing - making new discoveries, putting themselves on the front line and helping to take care of people in need, in all sorts of ways. -
In Search of Mary Seacole is a superb and revealing biography that explores her remarkable achievements and unique status as an icon of the 19th century but also corrects some of the myths that have grown around her life and career. -
What happens inside a hospital? Lift over 50 flaps to find out and meet some of the amazing people who work there. From A&E departments to outpatients, lots of different areas of the hospital are explored. What is it like to have a test, stay overnight or even have an operation? -
High quality tote bag featuring the wonderful Mary Seacole quote, “I never thought too exclusively of money, believing rather that we were born to be happy”. -
A colourful wooden block midwife figure, complete with fob watch, holding a very peaceful, sleeping baby! -
In this classic historical text on hospitals - featuring a foreword by the Florence Nightingale Museum - Nightingale reveals her passion for good hospital architecture and design. At Scutari she saw first-hand the harm which can be caused by inadequate and poorly designed hospital buildings. Nightingale openly criticised designs which she thought might lead to higher infection rates, and therefore patients' deaths. Published in conjunction with the Florence Nightingale Museum, the cover of this edition is exclusive to the museum. -
Florence Nightingale’s seminal work, the classical historical nursing text. Florence Nightingale wrote Notes on Nursing to help ordinary women care for their families. Translated into over ten languages, and never out of print since its first appearance, this really is the classic nursing text. Over 160 years later much of the advice given continues to be pertinent in the extreme, especially in the light of the recent global pandemic. Published in conjunction with - and including a foreword by - the Florence Nightingale Museum. The cover of this edition is exclusive to the museum. -
Fun rubber duck dressed as a nurse. -
A colourful wooden block nurses’ figure in scrubs complete with fob watch and stethoscope. -
A colourful wooden block nurses figure complete with clipboard; fob watch and lanyard. -
This is a fascinating book examining the work that nurses of many differing nations undertook during the Crimean War, the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, both World Wars and the Korean War. -
1000 piece jigsaw puzzle featuring the image of a Lithograph by J.A. Benwell, Florence Nightingale in the Military Hospital at Scutari, 1955.
