Florence Nightingale - Biography

Florence Nightingale OM, RRC (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night. An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse.

Nightingale laid the foundation of professional nursing with the establishment, in 1860, of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the first secular nursing school in the world, now part of King's College London. The Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses was named in her honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday.

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Florence Nightingale Quotes

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. - Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Quotes

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm. - Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Quotes

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe. - Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Quotes

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. - Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Quotes

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Quotes

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. - Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale Quotes

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. - Florence Nightingale