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The first official nursing school program opened in 1860. the Nightingale School for Nurses trained nurses to work in hospitals,, to teach and to work with the poor. Today, the work of her School of Nursing continues. The Nightingale Building in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Southampton is named after her.
Contrary to popular belief, The Nightingale Pledge - an oath taken by nurses upon graduation from schools of nursing, was not written by Florence Nightingale. Rather, it was composed by a nursing instructor at Harper Hospital in Detroit - Lystra Gretter. The first graduating class to use the pledge was in 1893. Untold numbers of graduating nurses have recited these words over the past 118 years:
"I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician, in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care. "
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Source: From A Short History of Nursing by Lavinia Dock and Isabel Stewart:
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