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 ...

Florence Nightingale, ... the lamp” — as she was soon known for tending to patients at all hours of the night — would become the mother of modern nursing and one ... (Germ theory was not yet ...

WASHINGTON — It would be impossible to recognize “Nurses Appreciation Week” without remembering the woman who created the standard for modern nursing: Florence Nightingale. Nightingale was ...

Florence Nightingale, born on May 12, 1820, became a nurse at a time when the profession was considered a degrading occupation and hospitals were cesspools of disease. Nightingale changed that.

The day also commemorates the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the 19th century nurse and statistician often recognized as the pioneer of modern nursing. On today’s Daily Dose, Dr. Michael Wilkes, a ...

Florence Nightingale, the pioneer in modern nursing care, served as a nurse manager in the Crimean War in the 1850s. Due to her wholeheartedly devotion to caring for the wounded soldiers, Nightingale ...

On Thursday, Oct. 2, Judith Lissauer Cromwell ’57 will be at the Smith College Conference Center discussing her book Florence Nightingale, Feminist at a benefit for the nursing development program at ...

Florence Nightingale left countless gifts to the world of nursing, and some of those treasures are in the possession of UAB’s Reynolds-Finley Historical Library—48 letters, a newspaper clipping, and a ...

Florence Nightingale is rightly credited as the mother of modern nursing. Over the course of the Crimean War (1853-1856), she proved herself heroic, brilliant and inventive.

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 ...