The mission of the school was to train nurses to work in hospitals, to work with the poor and to teach. The first official nurses' training programme, the Nightingale School for Nurses, opened in 1860. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.

It was the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King's College London. In 1860, Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London. She was known as 'The Lady with the Lamp' after her habit of making rounds at night. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers.

In the year of the bicentenary of her birth, she remains as relevant as ever, achieving an astonishing cultural afterlife.Florence Nightingale, ( – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated British social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Shedid most of this work from her bed after contracting the debilitating illness, brucellosis, in the Crimea, turning her various private homes into offices and ‘households of faith’. These efforts, inspired by her Christian faith and training in human care from religious houses, led to major changes in professional nursing and public health, as Nightingale strove for homely, compassionate care in Britain and around the world. Later, she created Nightingale Homes for nursing trainees and acted as mother-in-chief to her extended family of nurses. As a young woman, feeling imprisoned at home, she broke free to become a woman of action, bringing home comforts to the soldiers in the Crimean War and advising the British population on the home front how to create healthier, contagion-free homes. From her childhood homes in Derbyshire and Hampshire, she visited the poor sick in their cottages. This timely book proposes a new understanding of Florence Nightingale’s experiences of domestic life and how ideas of home influenced her writings and pioneering work. Homes can be both comforting and troubling places. Download Florence Nightingale at Home Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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