Mark Bostridge at the erection of a statue to Mary Seacole at St Thomas' Hospital in London. In interviews Bostridge explained that he was not opposed to a statue to Seacole but to the siting of it at the hospital where Florence Nightingale founded her nurse training school in 1860, influencing the development of nursing throughout the world. Bostridge argues that Seacole was not a "pioneer nurse" as some of the statue campaigners maintain. He also points to the way in which Nightingale's enormous contributions to public health are now commonly and mistakenly attributed to Seacole by a wide range of British
Nightingale College other more established nursing colleges in the region, Nightingale College is not regionally accredited. Nightingale College Nightingale College, located in Salt Lake City, Utah is a for-profit college which educates registered nurses. The College is a proprietary post-secondary institution and offers three education programs, the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) Program, the Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BDN) Program and the RN-to-BSN Program. The college has satellite locations in three states. Although the official Nightingale website aggregates the NCLEX passrate, the NCLEX first time pass rate is well below national accreditation benchmark of 80% at 48.65% for the second quarter of 2017