pFlorence Nightingale remains an inspiration to nurses around the world for her pioneering work treating wounded British soldiers during the Crimean War authorship of iNotes on Nursingi, the foundational text for nursing practice establishment of the world's first nursing school and advocacy for the hygienic treatment of patients and sanitary design of hospitals.ppIn iNotes on Nightingalei, nursing historians and scholars offer their valuable reflections on Nightingale and analysis of her role in the profession a century after her death on 13 August 1910 and 150 years since the Nightingale School of Nursing now the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at King's College, London opened its doors to probationers at St Thomas' Hospital.ppThere is a great deal of controversy about Nightingale--opinions about her life and work range from blind worship to blanket denunciation. The question of Nightingale and her place in nursing history and in contemporary nursing discourse is