A blue plaque for Florence Nightingale has been unveiled at the site of the former Derbyshire Royal Hospital that she helped ...

Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady ... Her upper middle class upbringing included an extensive home education from Florence’s father, who taught his daughters classics, philosophy ...

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, ...

Florence Nightingale was born into a wealthy London ... Florence was miserable at home, and among her many writings she mentions praying for death. Instead of mercy, she got a calling to help ...

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 “was very thorough and left nothing to chance ... to help nurses acquire high-level skills and prepare them for emerging fields, such as home health care and care management.

She sat with anyone that needed comforting, read to them and helped them to write home, earning her nickname, "The Lady with the Lamp." Florence Nightingale: Or "The Angel of the Crimea," if you ...