{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5dde704326b06ba47dc0ce6c/5fda1e115326486b93f48937?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Florence Nightingale: hand hygiene, history and nursing today","description":"<p>Award-winning author Mark Bostridge, who has written an acclaimed book on Ms Nightingale, joins senior nurse editor Richard Hatchett to discuss the ‘lady with the lamp’.</p><p><br></p><p>The episode, which comes in the bicentenary of Ms Nightingale’s birth this year, covers her influence as a public health reformer, time at Scutari hospital during the Crimean War and why she took to her bed in the latter years of her life.</p><p><br></p><p>To learn more about Florence Nightingale, visit our interactive feature exploring why the founder of modern nursing is still important at <a href=\"rcni.com/florence-nightingale\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">rcni.com/florence-nightingale</a></p><p><br></p><p>For more episodes of the Nursing Standard podcast, visit <a href=\"rcni.com/podcast\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">rcni.com/podcast</a></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Nursing Standard"}