A little over a year later, she was on her way to the Crimean War. Florence Nightingale set the standards for modern-day nursing. National Library of Medicine ...

The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari by Jerry Barrett, 1857 - public domain During Crimean War, hospitals of the day weren't so much centers of healing or ...

Nightingale sought to ensure that the medical crisis she witnessed in the Crimean War would never again occur. Now, as we celebrate National Nurses Week, nursing is again in crisis amid the covid ...

Florence Nightingale, shown in the 1860s, became famous for her efforts to improve health care during the Crimean War. She founded the first nursing school, located in London, England.

British nurse Florence Nightingale organized a hospital unit during the Crimean War of 1853-56.

Crimean War: Florence Nightingale and her staff nursing a patient in the military hospital at Scutari. Coloured lithograph, c. 1855, by T. Packer after himself.

When nurse Florence Nightingale arrived at the British Army’s hospital in Constantinople in 1854 to help treat soldiers wounded in the Crimean War, she immediately encountered squalor: nonfunctional ...

Perhaps of all the things we remember of this confrontation, the only positive aspect that emerges is the appearance of Florence Nightingale.

Photos thought to be among the last taken of Florence Nightingale are among a number of items related to the famed English nurse going up for auction in London.