Arguably, her greatest achievement was to transform nursing into a respectable profession for women and in 1860, she established the first professional training school for nurses, the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas' Hospital."},{"label":"Author Profile","value":"https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35241"},{"label":"Search Demo Collections for this Author","value":["Florence Nightingale"]},{"label":"Format","value":["Authority Record"]},{"label":"Rights","value":"Not applicable."},{"label":"Subject","value":["Surgery","Recruitment","Education","Nursing","Public Health","Sanitation","British Red Cross"]},{"label":"Date","value":"D:12 M:05 Y:1820 - D:13 M:08 Y:1910"},{"label":"Awards","value":"Royal Red Cross (1883)
Lady of Grace of the Order of St John (LGStJ) (1904)
Order of Merit (1907)"},{"label":"Nationality","value":"British"},{"label":"Institutions","value":"Selimiye Barracks, Scutari
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