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A legendary life
Florence Nightingale
1820 – 1910
Social reformer, statistician, and founder of modern professional nursing.
Her story
A life that changed history
Florence Nightingale organized and improved care for wounded soldiers during the Crimean War. She used evidence and statistics to press for public health reform and established a nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in 1860, helping make nursing a respected profession.
“The very first canon of nursing, the first and the last thing upon which a nurse’s attention must be fixed, the first essential to a patient, without which all the rest you can do for him is as nothing, with which I had almost said you may leave all the rest alone, is this: TO KEEP THE AIR HE BREATHES AS PURE AS THE EXTERNAL AIR, WITHOUT CHILLING HIM.”
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, 1860