To celebrate the centenary of the birthday of Florence Nightingale, Alderney Post issued a set of six postage stamps features her pioneering work in nursing .
Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC , was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family at the Villa Colombaia,near the Porta Romana at Bellosguardo in Florence, Italy, and was named after the city of her birth. She was born on May 12, 1820 .
Nightingale was a celebrated English Nurse, writer and statistician. As a Christian Universalist, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.
Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her Nursing School at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the world. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.
Nightingale was died on August 13, 1910. To commemorate her activities in long time ago, there are three statues of Florence Nightingale built in Derby — one outside the London Road Community Hospital formerly known as the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, one in St. Peter's Street, and one above the Nightingale-Macmillan Continuing Care Unit opposite the Derby Royal Infirmary.
