Florence Nightingale, generally regarded as the Founder of Modern Nursing, is an outstanding example of devotion to the cause of nursing. At a very early age, she believed she had several calls from God prompting her to commit her life to the service of others as a nurse. Some of her career achievements include serving as a nurse during the Crimean War in the mid 19th century, sanitary reform in Britain and laying the foundation for the first nursing school at a hospital in London where she worked until her death at the age of ninety. The Florence Nightingale Pledge for Nurses
