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Florence Nightingale and the numbers behind the deaths

Florence Nightingale came home from the Crimean War and turned its death figures into a case for reform. Learn why good care needs a working system, and what research says about feedback and checklists.

Major #2: Nursing (Registered Nursing)The story: Florence Nightingale (1850s). The book: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande.

About 8 minutes

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In this lesson

  • A hospital where the sick got sicker
  • The law: devotion is not enough
  • What the research says about counting and feedback
  • The book: The Checklist Manifesto
  • What the evidence says about checklists
  • Where this comes from
  • Try it today
  • 4 questions to check yourself

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