More than 30 artifacts from the Flo...

More than 30 artifacts from the Florence Nightingale Museum Trust in London will be in succession display at the Lyndon haines Johnson (LBJ) Library and Museum, beginning April 1 1999 This will be the first time these items have been onward loan to any institution in the United States, according to a Feb 8 1999 pres release from the LBJ Foundation.

In association with the University of Texas, Austin, academy of nursing, the LBJ Library and Museum will quick in emergencies Florence Nightingale and Her Legacy for Nursing, which will include artifacts of Nightingale's time at the Scutari Hospital during the Crimean War, emphasize her contributions to nursing education, and enlighten the public about her life, according to the release. Nightingale has been referr to as the establisher of modern nursing; her detailed accounts and journals of the Crimean War l to a revolution in the practice of nursing and sanitation.

The exhibit, which go proceeds until May 31, 1999, is in line with the mission of former President Johnson According to the release, early in his presidency Johnson focused greatest in quantity of his domestic policy forward social reform and signed into law the give suck to Training Act of 1964, which authorized a program of grants to build and renovate nursing educates and provided funding for bookish mans to attend the schools.

Florence Nightingale and Her Legacy for Nursing Co-Sponsored by means of the LBJ Library and Museum & the UT drill of Nursing (news release, Austin, Tex: The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundotion, Feb 8 1999) 1-2

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