Students in the two-year program at the Knox County Career Center School of Practical Nursing have reached the halfway point in their studies, and on Thursday family and friends joined them for a celebration recognizing that accomplishment — the traditional capping ceremony. Caps are tradtionally awarded to students when they are ready to begin their [...]

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Florence Nightingale was one of the pioneers in establishing the idea of nursing schools from her base at St Thomas’ Hospital, London in 1860 when she opened the ‘Nightingale Training School for Nurses’. Her intention was to train nurses to a qualified level, with the key aim of learning to develop observation skills and [...]