Florence Nightingale's Notes on Nursing
“The nurse ought to be the patients’ defender and keeper”
Tomorrow, May 12, marks International Nurses Day—and Florence Nightingale’s (1820-1910) birthday. You might know her as the “lady with the lamp” who tended to ill soldiers during the Crimean War—but she did so much more than that.
Nightingale’s research and activism drove sanitary reforms that dramatically decreased mortality during the war and after; l…
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