Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910). English social reformer,
statistician and founder of modern nursing.
Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager
and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for
wounded soldiers. She gave nursing a favourable reputation and became an icon
of Victorian culture, especially in the persona of "The Lady with the
Lamp" making rounds of wounded soldiers at night.
In 1860 she laid the foundation of professional nursing with
the establishment of her nursing school at St Thomas' Hospital in London. It
was the first secular nursing school in the world, and is now part of King's
College London. In recognition of her pioneering work in nursing, the
Nightingale Pledge taken by new nurses, and the Florence Nightingale Medal, the
highest international distinction a nurse can achieve, were named in her
honour, and the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated on her birthday.
Her social reforms included improving healthcare for all sections of British
society, advocating better hunger relief in India, helping to abolish
prostitution laws that were harsh for women, and expanding the acceptable forms
of female participation in the workforce.
Nightingale was a prodigious and versatile writer. In her
lifetime, much of her published work was concerned with spreading medical
knowledge. Some of her tracts were written in simple English so that they could
easily be understood by those with poor literary skills. She was also a pioneer
in the use of infographics, effectively using graphical presentations of
statistical data especially for mobilizing public opinion.
She was the first female member of the Royal Statistical
Society.
- "Florence's hair is of unusual beauty, bright chestnut in color, thick, glossy, and wavy. In middle age her hair became dark, but at nineteen it was golden-red."
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