Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Sophie Mannerheim

Sophie Mannerheim was a nurse known as a pioneer of modernizing the profession in Finland. She was trained in nursing at the Nightingale School at St. Thomas Hospital in London. Subsequently, she was appointed as head nurse of Helsinki Surgical Hospital and later elected President of the Finnish Nurses' Association, a position she held for 24 years. Baroness Sophie Mannerheim was founder of the Children's Hospital in Helsinki as well as the Mannerheim League for Children's Welfare.

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