Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
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. 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. 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 Faculty forms part of the Waterloo campus on the South Bank of the River Thames and is now one of the largest faculties in the university.
Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
Florence Nightingale posing with her class of nurses from St. Thomas' Hospital. Also on the photo is Sir Harry Verney, an active supporter of the nursing school.
Florence Nightingale, depicted in this popular lithograph reproduction of The Lady with the Lamp as painted by Henrietta Rae, 1891.
Alice Fisher
King's College London is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. It is one of the oldest university-level institutions in England. In the late 20th century, King's grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology, the Institute of Psychiatry, the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery.
The patron of King's College London, King George IV, shown in a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Somerset House – showing the East Wing, which is a part of the Strand Campus of King's College London.
King's College London in 1831, as engraved by J. C. Carter
William Otter (1831–36), the first Principal of King's College London