It’s International Nurses Day—and the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale. Leslie Neal-Boylan, The Conversation Nurses are heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. May 12 is International Nurses Day ...

That early image of Florence Nightingale, tending to wounded soldiers in the darkness with her lamp, has endured for so many nurses, for so many years, and takes on renewed significance as May 12 ...

This month is the 200th anniversary since British nurse Florence Nightingale was born. Andrew Preston tells her story using a selection of fascinating objects in a tribute.

From Florence Nightingale to Nurse Ratched, pristine white uniforms and crisply starched caps once made the American nurse instantly recognizable. But that iconic image is now a relic of the past ...

In 1854, Florence Nightingale required nurses headed for the Crimea to wear identical outfits that comprised a grey tweed dress, grey worsted jacket, plain white cap, and short woolen cloak.

Florence Nightingale experienced her personal call to nursing at age 16 and ultimately became known as the “Lady with the Lamp. ... The female students – numbering 20 to 30 at a time – lived at school ...

You’ll have heard about Florence Nightingale a lot recently, with temporary hospitals popping up around the UK bearing her name. Amid a global health crisis, the legacy of the nursing pioneer ...

“Nursing uniforms have changed a lot since Florence Nightingale’s day” Dame Eileen Sills. Children who go to school in Lambeth and Southwark boroughs aged between seven and 11 will be in with the ...