Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady ... He appointed her to take 38 nurses to the military hospital in Scutari, Turkey. It was the first time women had been allowed to officially ...

When you think of Florence Nightingale, you probably imagine a ... Florence worked around the clock as head nurse in an overcrowded field hospital. But she also found time to create graphs to ...

Florence Nightingale was named after the city of her birth - Florence in Italy. During the Crimean War (1853 - 1856) her hospital was across the Black Sea in Scutari - part of modern-day Istanbul.