Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
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- The Nightingale Training School and Home for Nurses - Nightingale School of Nursing - Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery |
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| Established | 9 July 1860 |
Parent institution | King's College London |
| Head of School | Professor Ian Norman |
| Location | London, UK |
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The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery is an academic school within King's College London. It is primarily concerned with the education of people to become nurses and midwives. It also carries out nursing research, continuing professional development and postgraduate programmes. The School forms part of the Waterloo campus on the South Bank of the River Thames and is now one of the largest schools in the university.
The school is ranked as the number one faculty for nursing in London[2] and belongs to one of the leading universities in health services, policy and research in the world.[3][4][4][5][6][7] The faculty specialises in the following areas: child and adolescent nursing; midwifery and women's health; adult nursing; mental health nursing; and postgraduate research, with programmes catering to the needs of a wider range of individuals and healthcare professionals continuing their professional development.[8]
Established on 9 July 1860 by Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, the school is the world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medical school (St. Thomas' Hospital).[9][10] As one of the oldest nursing schools in the world still in operation, it was a model for many similar training schools through the UK, Commonwealth and other countries for the latter half of the 19th century.[11]
History
Inspired by Florence Nightingale and her nurses' work during the Crimean War, a fund was set up in 1855 by members of the public to raise money for her work.[12] By June 1856, £44,039 (equivalent to over £2 million today) was raised. Nightingale decided to use the money to set up a training school at St Thomas' Hospital. The first nurses began their training on 9 July 1860. Graduates of the school were used to be called 'Nightingales'.[1]
When Nightingale's school for nurses was initially set up, the students had a typical training period lasting a year.[1] Students normally lived in-house; whilst having their own private rooms, a common room for lounge or socials was provided in the hospital's special area. The students attended their classes/patients at St. Thomas' Hospital.[1] Around twenty to thirty students were accepted in a year, whose probationary period fall under two classifications.[1] A common class woman who serves as student, upon completion, would receive a certain small amount of money plus a placement in a home or institution.[1] An upper class woman or 'Lady', on the other hand, would have completed some education and would be given the opportunity to assist in the school.[1] Uniforms were provided at any case, and they would be under the charge of a matron (and an assistant).[1] Upon graduation, they would be given a chance to visit Florence Nightingale in her South Street apartment, a momentous occasion for few people to meet her in person, especially since Nightingale's profile has been made well-known nationwide after the Crimean War.[1] Nightingale kept extensive notes on all the students in the school, including their 'character'.[1] She has placed certain importance to character; should there be any issue about one's character, the 'certification' of such nurse would be opposed to.[1]
Over the years, the training and the school itself went through a series of changes, mergers and expansions. The curriculum for nurses has changed enormously since. Further, in 1991, the school merged with Olive Haydon School of Midwifery and the Thomas Guy & Lewisham School of Nursing, creating the Nightingale and Guy’s College of Nursing & Midwifery. The following year the name changed to the Nightingale College of Health. In 1993, it merged with King's College Hospital School of Nursing at Normanby College and formed the Nightingale Institute.[13] In 1996, the Institute was fully integrated into King's College London and was combined with the university's Department of Nursing Studies two years later to form the present-day nursing school.[13]
Name change
In September 2014 the school changed its name to the 'Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery'.
Notable alumni, academics and staff
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Henny Tscherning
- Alice Fisher, a nursing pioneer in the US at the Philadelphia General Hospital
- Florence Sarah Lees, one of the pioneers of district nursing
- Baronness Sophie Mannerheim, initially trained as a probationer, eventually becoming a matron and step up a Helsinki training school and later becoming president of the International Council of Nurses
- Lucy Osburn, regarded as the founder of modern nursing in Australia
- Ella Pirrie, first head nurse of the Belfast City Hospital[14]
- Emmy Rappe, a Swedish nurse who founded the Swedish Nursing Association
- Isla Stewart, a nurse who became the matron of St Bartholomew's Hospital and founded the Royal British Nurses Association[15]
- Henny Tscherning, a Danish nurse who founded the Danish Nursing Association
- Frances Webberburn, became a matron at Colonial Hospital in Fiji, formally instituting the training of nurses in Fiji[16]
- Rachel Williams, the reforming 19th century matron of St Mary's Hospital, London, establishing its nurse training school in 1877[17]
- Sarah Elizabeth Wardroper, a matron of St Thomas' Hospital at the time Nightingale instituted the school, she became the school's first superintendent
- Theodora Turner, matron and nurse superintendent of St Thomas' Hospital (especially during its reconstruction period after the German bombing) as well as former president of Royal College of Nursing
- Dame Alicia Still, helped found the Florence Nightingale Museum
- Dame Cecily Saunders, nurse, physician and social worker who established the first modern hospice having instituted St Christopher's Hospice and was a pioneer of palliative care
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 The School for Nurses
- ↑ The Complete University Guide (2 October 2015). "University Subject Tables 2016: NUrsing - London". The Complete University Guide. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
- ↑ "Key Facts". King's Health Partners. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- 1 2 "The 30 Most Influential Colleges and Universities of the Past Century". Best College Reviews. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
- ↑ "World Reputation Rankings 2015 results". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ↑ "University Research Excellence Framework 2014 – the full rankings". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
- ↑ "2014–2015 World Ranking (1–250)". Middle East Technical University. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
- ↑ About the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
- ↑ The first nursing school in the world
- ↑ Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
- ↑ Daly, John; Speedy, Sandra; Jackson, Debra (2009). Contexts of Nursing (3 ed.). Elsevier Australia (Churchill Livingstone). p. 41. ISBN 9780729539258.
- ↑ History of Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery
- 1 2 Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery - About the School - History
- ↑ http://www.glennhorowitz.com/dobkin/lectures_on_medical_nursing Lectures in Medical Nursing
- ↑ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a6AKe03X7XcJ:https://www.rcn.org.uk/__data/assets/file/0004/298399/Isla_Stewart_ch3_BoN.rtf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=safari Isla Stewart: The Incarnation of Common Sense
- ↑ http://fijisun.com.fj/2009/11/30/health-ministry-bids-farewell-to-nursing-school/ Health Ministry Bids Farewell to Nursing School
- ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12801381 Florence Nightingale as 'mentor of matrons': correspondence with Rachel Williams at St Mary's Hospital
External links
- Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery (at King's) website
- King's College London Alumni website
- The Nightingale Fellowship
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