Lynn McDonald: champion of Florence Nightingale.
Journal: PubMed
Year: 2010

This year is the centenary of Florence Nightingale's death.Nightingale passed away on August 13, 1910, at the age of 90.It also marks 150 years since the publication of Notes on Nursing, her treatise on secular, modern nursing, as well as the opening of the first Nightingale School of Nursing.To commemorate these events there has been a proliferation of publications, both positive and negative, on Nightingale's life and legacy, as well as a re-issuing of her most influential writings on nursing.