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Florence Nightingale OM, RRC ( /ˈflɒrəns ˈnaɪtɨŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse.
Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King's College London. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.
Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia, near the Porta Romana at Bellosguardo in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth. Florence's older sister Frances Parthenope had similarly been named after her place of birth, Parthenopolis, a Greek settlement now part of the city of Naples.
Coordinates: 51°30′1″N 0°7′3″W / 51.50028°N 0.1175°W / 51.50028; -0.1175
The Florence Nightingale Museum is located at St Thomas' Hospital, which faces the Palace of Westminster across the River Thames in South Bank, central London, England. It is open to the public seven days a week. It re-opened on May 12 2010 following an extensive £1.4m refurbishment.
The museum tells the real story of the lady with the lamp from her Victorian childhood to her experiences in the Crimean, through to her years as an ardent campaigner for health reform. Florence Nightingale, is recognised as the founder of modern nursing in the United Kingdom. The new museum explains her legacy and also celebrates nursing today.
In 1860, four years after her famous involvement in the Crimean War, Nightingale founded the Nightingale Training School for nurses at St. Thomas' Hospital and the museum is located on this site.
The new museum is designed around three exciting pavilions which tell her story:
Highlights from the Collection include:
The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery is a school within King's College London. It is primarily concerned with the education of people to become nurses and midwives. It also carries out nursing research, continuing professional development and postgraduate programmes.
The School has a history which dates back to the first ever school of nursing opened by Florence Nightingale at St. Thomas' Hospital on 9 July 1860. The School forms part of the Waterloo campus on the South Bank of the River Thames and is now one of the largest schools in the university.
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