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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
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 ).
Mar 20, 2020 · Known as the “Lady with the Lamp,” Florence Nightingale provided care and comfort for British soldiers during the Crimean War. She helped revolutionize medicine with her no-nonsense approach to...
Florence Nightingale. Image by Hulton Archive / Getty Images. Born on May 12, 1820, Nightingale was smart and observant. At her first job in the early 1850s, caring for sick teachers in London,...
Florence Nightingale was so much more than a lady with a lamp. The legend of the saintly nurse has long obscured the truth – that her mathematical genius was what really saved so many lives.
