Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale was a pioneer in the field of nursing. She improved the care of sick and wounded soldiers. She also made nursing a respectable career for women.

Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, on 12 May 1820. She grew up in England, where she had a comfortable life with her wealthy parents.

She learnt seven languages, history and maths with her father.

Later on she decided to be a nurse.Her family didn't want her to but she still did.

She began to learn nursing in Germany in 1850, she later began to work in a hospital in London.

In 1854 the Crimean War broke out between the Russians and the Turks, the French and the British. Nightingale travelled to Turkey with a group of nurses to help the sick and wounded British soldiers. She found terrible conditions in the military hospital in Turkey. Medical supplies were low. The hospital was dirty and filled with rats and fleas.

Nightingale took control and was soon running the hospital. She made sure it was clean and well supplied.She was kind and caring to the soldiers.

Her nursing duties often kept her up all night. The soldiers named her the ‘Lady with the Lamp’. After the war the British people thought of Nightingale as a heroine.

In 1857 Nightingale became sickly. She spent most of the rest of her life at home, but she continued to work. In 1860 she formed the Nightingale School for Nurses. It was the first school in the world that trained women to be professional nurses. Nightingale died in London on 13 August 1910.

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