Black nurses’ contributions to healthcare and to society as a whole have often been undervalued and hidden. As a result, many ...

The world needs more nurses. If the heroes spotlighted in this article today teach anything it’s this: Be the change you want to see in your community.

In 1851, against her family’s wishes, she went to Germany to study as a nurse. In 1854, when war broke out against Russia, she went to Crimea to care for wounded soldiers. Nightingale worked at ...

Last week the first ever public statue of a black woman anywhere in Britain was unveiled. Crimean nurse Mary Seacole, sculpted in bronze, now stands in the grounds of St Thomas’s hospital in London — ...

Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing, while Mary Seacole built a hotel in Crimea to help treat soldiers. Her offers of help had been rejected twice, so she had funded ...