Bethany's Book Nook

Florence Nightingale: The Lady of the Lamp by Basil Miller      This was a very quick read and went into depth about her entire life. The early pages talk heavily how she’s always felt a calling towards nursing and believed that it was God’s plans for her. It’s apparent in her letters she wrote to others but also her demeanor as a child. Even though she had a longing to pursue nursing, she had her doubts about it, and often asked people outside her family their decisions. It was only then that she declared to her parents that she would be studying nursing. During that time almost any woman could become a nurse, it’s said that in the book people in court were often given the choice of going to prison or going to work in the hospital. Therefore her family was against her choice in profession, and tried everything to get the idea out of her mind. Being a determined woman, she decided to pursue it anyway. At 31 she finally began her nursing career, throwing herself completely...