Florence Nightingale

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Birth Name: Florence Nightingale

Born: 12 May 1820 Died: 13 August 1910

Country of origin: Italy

Height: 5' 3"

Relationship Status: Single

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Florence Nightingale: Changing the Field of Nursing - Fast Facts | History

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Florence Nightingale - The Lady with the Lamp

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Florence Nightingale - Mini Biography

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Description: English nurse and hospital reformer. Florence Nightingale was named after the place of her birth in Italy. Educated at home by their wealthy, well-bred father, Nightingale and her older sister Parthenope studied history, philosophy, mathematics, and classics; they also wrote weekly compositions. Nursing was considered a profession for the lower-classes and that time, however Florence decided that was what she wanded to do. She trained as a nurse at Kaiserswerth (1851) and Paris and in 1853 became superintendent of a hospital for invalid women in London. In the Crimean War she volunteered for duty and took 38 nurses to Scutari in ... (more)