Nursing in the United Kingdom is regarded as the founder of the modern nursing profession. There was no real hospital training school for nurses until one was established in Kaiserwerth, Germany, in 1846. There, Nightingale received the training that later enabled her to establish, at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first school designed primarily to train nurses rather than to provide nursing service for the hospital. In the Crimean War against Russia, Nightingale was appointed to oversee the introduction of female nurses into the military hospitals in Turkey, after criticisms in the British press. In November 1854, Nightingale arrived at the barrack hospital near
Anne Marie Rafferty Pennsylvania, where she worked with Dr Linda Aiken on the role of nursing in the Clinton Administration's health care reform agenda. Her research interests combine history, health policy and health services research. She was appointed Director, Centre for Policy in Nursing Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1994, and subsequently Head, Health Services Research Unit. She took up the position of Dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London in November 2004 and completed two terms. She is now a Professor of Nursing Policy within the Florence Nightingale Faculty of