Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, ...

few names have been sung more brightly than Florence Nightingale, born on this day in 1820. Credited with founding the first modern, secular nursing school in 1860 (at St. Thomas’s Hospital in ...

When Greta Westwood was 4 years old, she read a children’s book about Victorian nurse Florence ... appointed Nightingale to lead a contingent of 38 volunteer nurses to a military hospital ...

a nearby barracks hospital where Florence Nightingale worked, the mortality rate was 42.7%.This 40% difference was evidence of the profound impact of simple architectural and spatial methods ...

Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820 ... Florence was offered a job as a superintendent at a hospital for women in August 1853 after she'd returned to the UK. The Crimean War broke ...

On Thursday, Oct. 2, Cromwell will be at the Smith College Conference Center discussing her book Florence Nightingale, Feminist at a benefit for the nursing development program at Cooley Dickinson ...

For nearly 200 years, Florence ... Nightingale gradually overcame her family’s objections, receiving training in Germany and France. In 1853, she became the superintendent of a small hospital ...

Not many people understood about how important it was to keep medical equipment and hospital beds clean to stop disease spreading. Florence Nightingale changed the way injured and sick people were ...

In the summer of 1856 Florence Nightingale sailed home from war furious. As the nursing administrator of a sprawling British Army hospital network, she had witnessed thousands of sick soldiers ...

Photos thought to be among the last taken of Florence Nightingale ... setting up the Nightingale School of Nursing at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London in 1860. International Nurses Day is ...

Beth Rawson, who is the Royal Derby Hospitals Medical Museum Curator, said that Florence Nightingale set up for the first nurse training school at St Thomas' Hospital in London in 1860.