Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care
nursing school
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care is an academic faculty within King's College London. The faculty is the world's first nursing school to be continuously connected to a fully serving hospital and medical school (St. Thomas' Hospital). Established on 9 July 1860 by Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, it was a model for many similar training schools through the UK, Commonwealth and other countries for the latter half of the 19th century. The faculty is based on the Waterloo campus on the South Bank of the River Thames and at the Cicely Saunders Institute on the Denmark Hill campus.
The faculty provides education including continuing professional development and postgraduate research programmes. It also carries out research across nursing, midwifery, palliative care, rehabilitation and related health and care fields.
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.
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. By June 1856, £44,039 (equivalent to over £4.26 million in 2016) was raised.
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