All nurses know who Florence Nightingale is. She is often referred to as the mother of nursing or the founder of modern nursing.

“The Lady with the Lamp” entered the field of nursing in 1845, even though her upper-class British family disapproved. During the Crimean War, Nightingale lobbied the British government on behalf of the terrible hospital conditions for wounded soldiers in Turkey.

She is one of the most famous people in the world and the most well known in the nursing world. She is the founder of what is now called the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College in London.

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