When Nightingale approached her parents and told them about her ambitions to become a nurse, they were not pleased and forbade her to pursue appropriate training. read more
Florence Nightingale's passion for helping others grew out of her distaste for the gender inequality affecting women in her social circle. She was an educated woman whose early work in nursing was as an unpaid superintendent of an"establishment for gentlewomen during illness" in Victorian London (1858). read more