Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care is an academic faculty within King's College London. The faculty is the world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medical school (St. Thomas' Hospital). Established on 9 July 1860 by Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, it was a model for many similar training schools through the UK, Commonwealth and other countries for the latter half of the 19th century. It is primarily concerned with the education of people to become nurses and midwives. It
Florence Nightingale Nightingale", featuring Elisabeth Risdon. In 1936, Kay Francis played Nightingale in the film titled "The White Angel". In 1951, "The Lady with a Lamp" starred Anna Neagle. Portrayals of Nightingale on television, in documentary as in fiction, vary – the BBC's 2008 "Florence Nightingale", featuring Laura Fraser, emphasised her independence and feeling of religious calling, but in Channel 4's 2006 "Mary Seacole: The Real Angel of the Crimea", she is portrayed as narrow-minded and opposed to Seacole's efforts. Other portrayals include: Florence Nightingale's image appeared on the reverse of £10 Series D banknotes issued by the Bank of England from