Florence Nightingale olive-oil lamp

Nursing care as a source of reliability, goodwill, warm – regardless time and place.

Personal – referring to Florence Nightingale as creator of modern nursing

It is an international symbol of nursing, accompanying the most important ceremonies. It symbolizes a lit lamp used by of Florence Nightingale while caring for injured soldiers during the Crimean war. It’s stylized sign is the International Council of Nurses logo, often found also on nursing school badges or pins, on national or international journals covers.

• The picture of Florence Nightingale with an olive-oil lamp – in the Florence Nightingale Museum in London, Great Britain
• The drawing of Florence Nightingale with an olive-oil lamp by R. Schönhaus – on diplomas of the Florence Nightingale Medal
• The Lady with a lamp – on a glass-window in church in Glasgow
• The Lady with a lamp monument – in Santa Croce Church, Florence, Italy
• 1921 – first badge of the Polish Red Cross School for Nurses and Hygienists School in Poznań, with a nursing cap and a lamp
• 1912 – the Florence Nightingale Medal established by the International Committee of the Red Cross
• 1999 – the International Council of Nurses logo changed – it consists of a fundament, a lamp (stylized olive-oil lamp), a flame and a sphere (100^th Anniversary Jubilee Conference of ICN)

A lamp meaning

Nursing care as a source of reliability, goodwill, warm – regardless time and place.

Personal – referring to Florence Nightingale as creator of modern nursing.

Elaboration: Krystyna Wolska-Lipiec