Both Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole were British nurses who provided nursing care to soldiers in the Crimean War in Scutari, Turkey. What might be some structural reasons that the only nurse to make it into the history books and be credited with developing modern nursing was Florence Nightingale?
a. Florence Nightingale was from a wealthy aristocratic family with close ties to the highest levels of government
b. Florence Nightingale was a white nurse working for credibility of the profession in a time where being a nurse was often equated with inferior upbringing or prostitution.
c. None of the above
d. Both 1 & 2
