Florence Nightingale
I just read an article on AOL about the finding of a rare photograph of Florence Nightingale. For those of you unfamiliar with Ms. Nightingale's work, many apparently consider her the founder of the nursing profession. Even if she didn't found it, she certainly helped popularize the concept of the nurse, even going to the battlefield during the Crimean War to provide nursing care to soldiers. Her work proved definitively that good nursing care is essential to the proper medical care of patients.... Sign in to see full entry.