Florence Nightingale’s pioneering legacy lives on at the UAB School of Nursing, where her example of skilled, compassionate care guides our efforts to train future generations of clinicians, ...

After the war she opened a training school for nurses, wrote instructional books and modernized hospital planning. She died in 1910. "Florence Nightingale puts a face to the nursing profession because ...

Nightingale went on to play a key role in formalizing education for nurses, setting up the Nightingale School of Nursing at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London in 1860.

The Nightingale Medal, instituted in 1912 by the International Committee of the Red Cross, is awarded to nurses or nursing aides for "exceptional courage and devotion to the wounded, sick or disabled ...

Ms Sheridan qualified from the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas’ Hospital in 1969 and returned to teach there for nine years after becoming a tutor in 1978. She went on to be chief executive ...