Editorial: What has Florence Nightingale ever done for clinical nurses?
Journal: Journal of Clinical Nursing
Year: 2012

Until recently, Florence Nightingale’s portrait featured on the British 10-pound note. This year, marking the centenary anniversary of her death at 90 years of age on the 13 August 1910, Miss Nightingale’s name has now been etched on 2-pound coins. However, lest we think the standard-bearer of modern nursing is losing currency, commemorative events held that year in the UK and elsewhere confirm that the ‘Lady with the Lamp’, as dubbed by the poet Longfellow, remains highly valued. In fact, prais