How Florence Nightingale Paved the Way for the Heroic Work of Nurses Today 8 minute read English nursing pioneer, healthcare reformer and Crimean War heroine Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910).

Florence Nightingale, often referred to as “The Lady with the Lamp,” revolutionized the field of nursing and left a profound impact on healthcare as we know it today. Born on May 12, 1820, in ...

Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady with a lamp. The legend of the saintly nurse has long obscured the truth – that her mathematical genius was what really saved so many lives.

Nightingale implemented the practices that worked well in her training school for nursing and Scutari hospital. Letters show that Nightingale objected to nuns’ trying to convert soldiers on their ...

Sir Edward Cook's two-volume Life, published in 1913, is still the best biography, despite the popularity of Cecil Woodham-Smith's Florence Nightingale, which appeared in 1950.

Florence Nightingale is best known for leading a group of 38 nurses to care for British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War in 1854. When Nightingale and her nurses arrived at the military hospital in ...

"To Miss Florence Nightingale, as a mark of esteem and gratitude for her devotion towards the Queen's brave soldiers, from Victoria R. 1855." ...

Florence Nightingale died in 1910 at the age of 90, but her example continued to inspire nurses on both sides of the Atlantic. During World War II, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt honored the nurses ...

A trove of photos, letters and gifts associated with Florence Nightingale just sold for £25,584 (more than $32,000) at a Roseberys auction in London.

By the time Nightingale, who came to prominence during the Crimean War in the late 1850s, penned the letter she was in her late 70s and struggling with her health. But even although she had been ...