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Florence Nightingale (About her (Nurse- defied the expectations at the…
Florence Nightingale
About her
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Born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820
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Died on August 13,1910 in london
Later Life
Nightingale contracted the bacterial infection brucellosis, Crimean fever and would never fully recover
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in 1859, published Notes on Hospitals which focused on running civilian hospitals.
in 1907, she was conferred the Order of Merit by King Edward and recieved the Freedom of the City of London the following year
Died Saturday August 13th, 1910.
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early life
reportedly awkward in social situations and preferred to avoid being the center of attention whenever possible.
Lea Hurst, Derbyshire and the other at Embly, Hampshire
active in philanthropy, ministering to the ill and poor people in the village neighboring her family's estate.
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enrolled as a nursing student in 1850 and 1851 at the institution of Protestant Deaconesses in Kaiserswerth, Germany
Pioneering Nurse
in late 1854, Nightingale received a letter from Secretary of War Sidney Herbert, asking her to organize a corps of nurses to tend to the sick and fallen soldiers in the crimea. Her work reduced the hospital's death rate by two-thirds
Scutari, the british base hospital in Constantinople.
She procured hundreds of scrub brushes and asked the least infirm patients to scrub the inside of the hospital from floor to ceiling.
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