Austin Peay State University nursing student wins Vanderbilt’s Florence Nightingale Award
August 16, 2019
Clarksville, TN – In 1855, during the carnage of the Crimean War, a British newspaper man named John MacDonald crept through a dark hospital in Turkey, trying not to disturb hundreds of sick and wounded soldiers.
To keep from getting lost or bumping into beds, he followed a young woman through the building, pausing with her as she shined her lamp over the injured and reassured them with a few kind words.
Austin Peay State University’s Oliver Smith won Vanderbilt’s Florence Nightingale Award. (APSU)
