Florence Nightingale was born in Florence ... she had made up her mind and in 1850 she started training to be a nurse. “Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an ...

May 12 marks the 199th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale, an English social reformer and statistician, who is considered the founder of modern nursing ... are a few quotes by the legendary ...

Known as the ‘Lady with the Lamp’, Florence Nightingale revolutionised nursing ... Here are a few quotes on nursing and life from this inspirational nurse: ...

Known for pioneering modern medicine, Florence Nightingale was best-known for raising the standards of nursing and educating nurses on practices, such as good hygiene and handwashing – both of ...

Florence Nightingale ... on nursing, hospital management, and English feminism. Her most famous works, Notes on Nursing were circulated to hundreds of thousands during her lifetime and are still used ...

Photos thought to be among the last taken of Florence Nightingale are ... they may be the final images taken of Nightingale,” Jack Wallis, a works of art specialist at Roseberys, told CNN.

Florence Nightingale is often described as the founder of modern nursing. She was immortalised in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1857 poem, Santa Filomena: “A noble type of good / Heroic Womanhood.” For ...