DIRECTOR’S NOTE: For those with projection facilities it would be effective to project Florence Nightingale’s quotes and/or information from the Crimean War during the singing of, ‘Saluting Florence Nightingale’. Finish with the youthful image of Florence Nightingale, as the lights fade. 

Examples of Florence Nightingale quotes: 

• ‘I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.’ 

• ‘Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses… we must be learning all of our lives.’

• ‘Live life when you have it.  Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.’ 

• ‘Happiness is the gradual realisation of a worthy ideal or goal.’ 

• ‘It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.’ 

• ‘How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.’

• ‘Wise and human management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.’ 

• ‘There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.’

• ‘Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day.  If her face, too, so much the better.’

Examples of Crimean War information:

• Crimean War Oct 1853 - Feb 1856. Fought against Russia by Britain, France, Turkey and Sardinia.

• The Battle of Balaclava included the ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’.

• Brief truces in battles enabled the removal of the dead.

• More than 300,000 soldiers of all nations killed.

• Over 21,000 British died. Estimated 16,000 of these from disease.

• First use of trenches, steam armoured ships, submarine mines and war photography.

• Lack of ambulances, so British patients transported on cavalry horses.

• The Crimean War led to the first award of the Victorian Cross.