Who started the professional education of nurses?
Florence Nightingale (1820 to 1910) was a British nurse, hospital reformer and pioneer. She founded the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at Saint Thomas’s Hospital in London, the first school dedicated to the professional education of nurses.HistoryIn 1849, Nightingale left England to study the European hospital systems. There she started her training as a nurse at the Institute of Saint Vincent de Paul in Alexandria, Egypt. Nightingale then moved to Kaiserswerth, Germany, where she studied at the Institute for Protestant Deaconesses.WartimeNightingale became superintendent of the Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen in London in 1853. However, when the Crimean War began a year later, she volunteered her nursing services when she heard about the unsanitary conditions at the British barracks hospital in Turkey.New StandardsThe British Minister of War proposed that Nightingale do the same for all nursing operations at the war front. Nightingale and her accompanying group of nurses esta
