Florence Nightingale’s legacy transformed nursing into a respected profession, pioneered modern hospital design, and advanced ...

When Florence Nightingale arrived at the Scutari ... something she had first outlined in her 1859 book “Notes on Nursing.” In it, she wrote: “I use the word nursing for want of a better.

Florence Nightingale, who was born 200 years ... she was well aware of the importance of hand washing. In her book Notes on Nursing (1860), she wrote that: Every nurse ought to be careful to ...

Florence Nightingale was an inspiring, courageous woman. She also wrote widely publishing over 200 books, pamphlets, and articles on nursing, hospital management, and English feminism. Her most famous ...

When Greta Westwood was 4 years old, she read a children’s book about Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale ... bedridden from 1857, Nightingale wrote thousands of letters campaigning for ...

Venerated as the "founder of modern nursing," Florence ... Nightingale into a Victorian celebrity. "She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration in these hospitals," the London Times ...

She became known as ‘The Lady with the Lamp’. Florence Nightingale is ... She started a nursing school at St. Thomas' Hospital in 1860 and wrote books so that nurses could be properly trained ...

This date was chosen because it’s the anniversary of the birth in 1820 of Florence Nightingale ... She thought that becoming a nurse was the best way to do this. Her parents said no, that ...

Scholars are finding there’s much more to the “lady with the lamp” than her famous exploits as a nurse in the Crimean War Joshua Hammer; Photographs by Tina Hillier - Contributing writer ...