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 ...

Aware of how the integrity of her work could be undermined by the ebb and flow of public opinion, Nightingale deliberately ...

Open: Wellcome Collection 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. The great ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) In the mid-19th century, Nightingale became perhaps the most celebrated woman of her ...

There are more than 5 million nurses in the United States. They work at hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices, patients' homes, special-care facilities, prisons and military bases. If you go to ...

In the summer of 1856 Florence Nightingale sailed home from war furious. As the nursing administrator of a sprawling British Army hospital network, she had witnessed thousands of sick soldiers endure ...