Nightingale with her Fellow Nurses
Nightingale started attended nursing school in 1850 at the Institute of St. Vincent de Paul in Alexandria Egypt . This hospital was run by the Roman Catholic Church. In 1851 Nightingale attended three months of nursing training from Kaiserwerth in Germany.
In 1853 Nightingale took an unpaid position as superintendent of a hospital for "gentlewomen" on Harley Street in London. A year later, in 1854, Sidney Herbert, the Crimean War minister asked Nightingale to oversee a nursing team in a military hospital in Turkey.
In 1854 Nightingale and her team of thirty eight other women traveled to the barrack hospital in Scutari. In 1860, Nightingale started the Nightingale Training School for Nurses at the St. Thomas Hospital in London England. She trained new nurses and then sent them out to work in hospitals all over Britain. She passed on her concerns for sanitation, military health, and hospital planning to her nursing students. Some of Nightingale's ideas are still used in modern nursing.
Website by: Hadley Ballou
In 1853 Nightingale took an unpaid position as superintendent of a hospital for "gentlewomen" on Harley Street in London. A year later, in 1854, Sidney Herbert, the Crimean War minister asked Nightingale to oversee a nursing team in a military hospital in Turkey.
In 1854 Nightingale and her team of thirty eight other women traveled to the barrack hospital in Scutari. In 1860, Nightingale started the Nightingale Training School for Nurses at the St. Thomas Hospital in London England. She trained new nurses and then sent them out to work in hospitals all over Britain. She passed on her concerns for sanitation, military health, and hospital planning to her nursing students. Some of Nightingale's ideas are still used in modern nursing.
Website by: Hadley Ballou
