28/07/2026
Lately, I’ve had the opportunity to take some fun field trips to the Baltimore area as a nurse academic and Nightingale scholar, to visit the medical research archives tucked away on the campus of Johns Hopkins University at McAuley Hall.
It’s a beautiful campus and a thrill to handle priceless artifacts of the icon of the nursing profession, the first woman to be inducted into the Royal Society of Statisticians, the ad hoc advisor to the British Colonial Office, a humble and generous woman whose faith was her compass.
I love exploring the Florence Nightingale papers in the Johns Hopki...