Biographical account of Nurse Florence Nightingale, best known for making hospitals a cleaner and safer place to be.

Though nursing is what Florence Nightingale is remembered for, this page concentrates on her love of mathematics and the contribution her use of statistics made to her work in improving hospital conditions, first for soldiers in the...

Online exhibit, with a variety of video presentations, letters, and a timeline, considers the life and contributions of the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.

The "Florence Nightingale Story" portion of this site provides a basic biography with pictures. Information on the museum and on books by and about her is also available, as are related links and other resources.

Agnes Scott College includes in its Biographies of Women Mathematicians this page on the life of Florence Nightingale. Most people do not realize that in addition to her work for nursing and hospital reform, Nightingale was also a...

Use this informative site to learn more about Florence Nightingale's life and work. "In 1939, the turn-of-the-century feminist and nursing historian M. Adelaide Nutting was asked to record an introduction to a re-release of Florence...

Use this site to learn more about Florence Nightingale's life and work. There is a timeline provided for you to learn about her work as a nurse.

Biographical information about Florence Nightingale along with access to Nightingale's letters and books (scanned originals plus transcripts) from Harvard's collections. Part of a larger site about historical perspectives on disease.

This is a biography of Florence Nightingale, the English leader in the reform of hospitals during the Victorian era.

Learn about a woman who became a legend-loved and appreciated by thousands who benefitted from her knowledge, care, skill and persistence. (In Spanish)

[Free Registration/Login Required] A pictorial history flipchart with information about the life of Florence Nightingale and her work in the Crimea War.

This website explores the lives of heroic ordinary people who made their mark on history. Features illustrated story on Florence Nightingale, famous nurse in the Crimean War. Find out who she was, what she did, her achievements, and her...

This website explores the lives of heroic ordinary people who made their mark on history. Features illustrated story on Florence Nightingale who worked in the military hospitals. Find out who she was, what she did, her achievements, and...

Use this site to learn how Florence Nightingale "transformed the profession of nursing" through her work to improve conditions of the hospital she worked in during The Crimean War.

Before the American Civil War, the majority of hospital nurses or "stewards" were men. But the war created a medical crisis that demanded more volunteers, and a lot of the people who took up the call were women. Amid this desperate need...