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Florence Nightingale (middle) in 1886 with Miss Mary Crossland of the Nightingale Training School, Sir Harry Verney and a group of Nightingale Nurses from St Thomas'. Pictured outside Claydon House, Buckinghamshire. In 1883, Nightingale became the first recipient of the Royal Red Cross.
Nov 9, 2009 · Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), known as “The Lady With the Lamp,” was a British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the founder of modern nursing. Her experiences as...
Jun 19, 2024 · Florence Nightingale (born May 12, 1820, Florence [Italy]—died August 13, 1910, London, England) was a British nurse, statistician, and social reformer who was the foundational philosopher of modern nursing. Nightingale was put in charge of nursing British and allied soldiers in Turkey during the Crimean War.
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.
Famous for being the ‘Lady with the Lamp’ who organised the nursing of sick and wounded soldiers during the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale’s far-sighted ideas and reforms have influenced the very nature of modern healthcare.
“Miss Nightingale shows an ambitious struggling after power inimical to the true interests of the medical department,” John Hall, the chief British Army medical officer in Crimea, wrote ...
Florence Nightingale was one of the great heroines of Victorian England, and tales of her selfless service in the Crimean War edified two generations of British children.
