Florence Nightingale

True or False? Florence Nightingale was the first woman nurse? False! Women had worked as nurses for years, but it was considered a miserable job. Florence Nightingale helped make nursing a respectable profession. She was in charge of nurses at British military hospitals in the Crimean War (1853 to 1856). She set up the Nightingale Training School for Nurses. She wrote more than 200 books and pamphlets. Filled with color and black and white historic photographs along with text describing the phases of Florence Nightingales life and medical history. A valuable resource.