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In 2011, an appeal was made for the former Derbyshire Royal Infirmary hospital in Derby, England to be named after Nightingale. It was suggested the name could be either Nightingale Community Hospital or Florence Nightingale Community Hospital. The area where the hospital is situated is sometimes referred to as the "Nightingale Quarter". [115]
The Florence Nightingale Community Hospital, formerly the London Road Community Hospital, is a community hospital on London Road in Derby, England. It was established in 2009. It is managed by the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. The other main hospital in Derby is the Royal Derby Hospital.
Redevelopment on the former site of the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary started in 2020 after initially being halted due to the coronavirus pandemic. Renamed the 'Nightingale Quarter' - after Florence Nightingale - by developer Wavensmere Homes, the new site covers 18.5 acres and includes over 900 new residential properties. [13]
This building was renamed the Liverpool Royal Infirmary after a visit of Queen Victoria to Liverpool in 1851. [2] William Rathbone VI, based on advice from Florence Nightingale, set up the world's first ever district nursing service at this building in 1862. [3] This led to the formation of the Queen's Nursing Institute. [4]
The opportunity to go to Australia had come about because the politician and social reformer, Henry Parkes, wrote to Florence Nightingale requesting nurses to reform nursing in New South Wales. [3] They were to be based at the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary and train nurses to institute the new nursing system throughout the colony.
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 ). [ 3 ]
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) comprises the Royal Derby Hospital, Queen's Hospital, in Belvedere Road, Burton, Florence Nightingale Community Hospital in Derby, Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital in Tamworth and Samuel Johnson Community Hospital in Lichfield. [1]
Florence Nightingale There was no hospital training school for nurses until one was established in Kaiserwerth , Germany, in 1846. There, Nightingale received the training that enabled her in 1860 to establish, at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first school designed primarily to train nurses rather than to provide nursing service for the ...