When Florence Nightingale arrived at the Scutari military hospital in Turkey in 1854, conditions there were almost as bad as on the battlefield. As Britain and its allies pushed back against ...

That early image of Florence Nightingale, ... War Minister Sidney Herbert appointed Nightingale to lead a contingent of 38 volunteer nurses to a military hospital in Scutari, ...

The horrors she witnessed at the British Army hospital of Scutari, near modern Istanbul, would weigh on Nightingale the rest of her life. She later described the wards she first encountered as ...

For nearly 20 years (between 1975 and 1993) her portrait, adapted from Barrett's painting of Nightingale at Scutari, The Mission of Mercy (now in the National Portrait Gallery, London), could be ...

Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady with a lamp. ... He appointed her to take 38 nurses to the military hospital in Scutari, Turkey.

Florence Nightingale in bed at South Street in 1906, aged 86 Photographed by Elizabeth Bosanquet / Florence Nightingale Museum. In 1854, Florence Nightingale arrived at a military hospital in ...

Florence Nightingale is best known for leading a group of 38 nurses to care for British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War in 1854. When Nightingale and her nurses arrived at the military hospital in ...

Florence Nightingale’s legacy transformed nursing into a respected profession, ... Florence Nightingale took 38 volunteer nurses to the British base hospital at Scutari in modern-day Istanbul.

Florence Nightingale experienced her personal call to nursing at age 16 and ultimately became known as the “Lady with ... Scutari was now a British hospital housing thousands of wounded English and ...

Enter, on November 4, 1854, just five days after the arrival at Scutari of the Balaclava wounded, Florence Nightingale, who today still glides her way, oil lamp in hand, through the hospital wards ...

Florence Nightingale, often referred to as “The Lady with the Lamp,” revolutionized the field of nursing and left a profound impact on healthcare as we know it today. Born on May 12, 1820, in ...