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Often called “the Lady with the Lamp,” Florence Nightingale was a caring nurse and a leader, but is best known for making hospitals a cleaner and safer place to be. Learn more at womenshistory.org.
Apr 3, 2014 · Florence Nightingale was a trailblazing figure in nursing who greatly affected 19th- and 20th-century policies around proper medical care. She was known for her night rounds to aid the wounded,...
The Defiance of Florence Nightingale Scholars are finding there’s much more to the “lady with the lamp” than her famous exploits as a nurse in the Crimean War Left, the British Army camped ...
Jun 27, 2015 · Florence Nightingale (Figure 1), the founder of modern nursing of professional nursing, was born in Florence, Italy, on 1820, in an English family; she was named of the city of her birth. Florence learned mathematics, language, philosophy and religion (all subjects that later influenced on her work) from her father ( 1 ).
In 1853 Florence Nightingale was the head of a nursing group in London. The next year she went with 38 trained nurses to the war in the Crimea. Britain was fighting there against Russia. In the...
Born on May 12, 1820, Nightingale was smart and observant. At her first job in the early 1850s, caring for sick teachers in London, England, she became superintendent after quickly showing her talent for helping the sick get better. It was also when she developed ideas that would change healthcare forever. The mostly male doctors of the day ...
The English nurse Florence Nightingale was an innovator in displaying statistical data through graphs. In 1858 she devised the type depicted here, which she named Coxcomb. Like pie charts, the Coxcomb indicates frequency by relative area, but it differs in its use of fixed angles and variable radii. (more)
