The history of Florence Nightingale, founder of the modern profession of nursing, is fascinatingly discussed on this Website. The museum itself is housed at St Thomas' Hospital, London where she founded her famous school for nurses in 1860 and like the school, the museum aims '"to advance the education of nurses".The site takes an intelligent approach to the history of Florence Nightingale with detailed essays on such themes as her innovative use of statistical diagrams and the gap between her popular image as the 'Lady with the Lamp' and the reality of Nightingale as a forceful campaigner for healthcare reform.The Resource Centre section gives detailed listings of the collections and archives available for research and the Education Services and the Books and Educational Resources sections show how the collections can be used with the national curriculum and the museum's own publications.
