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May 9, 2020 · For the many admirers of Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), the bicentenary of her birth on May 12, 2020, has been long anticipated. Few of us could have foreseen that this birthday would come at a time when a swathe of new temporary hospitals bearing her name had been set up in the UK—the NHS Nightingale Hospitals, intended to support the response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Oct 25, 2020 · Abstract. In 2020 we celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Florence Nightingale and 110 years from her death (1820–1910). This gives us the opportunity to remember her life and her achievements. She is mainly known for her contribution to the foundation of modern nursing in the British Empire and subsequently to the world.
Mar 6, 2020 · The influence and legacy of a nursing icon. Health. We often think of Florence Nightingale as the heroine of the Crimea, but she was much more than that. Widely regarded as the founder of modern nursing, Nightingale rejected the societal expectations for middle-class women to marry well and have a family, to pursue her career as a nurse.
See Am J Public Health. 2011 May; 101 (5): 776. In 1954, under the authorization of Sidney Herbert, the Secretary of War, Florence Nightingale brought a team of 38 volunteer nurses to care for the British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War, which was intended to limit Russian expansion into Europe. Nightingale and her nurses arrived at the ...
Discoverers · British nurse, statistician, and social reformer. Florence Nightingale, byname Lady with the Lamp, (born May 12, 1820, Florence [Italy]—died August 13, 1910, London, England), British nurse, statistician, and social reformer who was the foundational philosopher of modern nursing. Nightingale was put in charge of nursing British ...
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) was the instigator of modern nursing. Although all societies throughout history attended to the sick and injured, it was the arrival of nursing linked to religious orders that established the beginnings of an embryonic profession. Baly (2002) gives a good description of nursing within these religious orders ...
Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820 to Fanny and William Nightingale. They christened their younger daughter after the Italian city she was born in.1Nightingale was raised in the lap of luxury, in a privileged family background of social prestige and considerable finan-cial standing.
