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PinkAngel
May 12, 08 - 10:41 AM |
Florence Nightingale Birthday
Today is Florence Nightingale's Birthday Born: May 12, 1820, Florence, Italy Died: August 13, 1910, London, England Florence Nightingale studied nursing in Alexandria, Egypt, and at the Institute for Protestant Deaconesses in Kaiserswerth, Germany. She became superintendent of London's Hospital for Invalid Gentlewomen in 1850. She went to Scutari with thirty-eight nurses early in the Crimean War to direct nursing operations; her efforts resulted in greatly reducing mortality rates among the sick and wounded. She founded the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at St. Thomas Hospital in London in 1860, marking the beginning of professional nursing education. In 1907, she received the British Order of Merit; she was the first woman to be so honored. The 'Lady-in-Chief', as Florence was called, wrote home on behalf of the soldiers. She acted as a banker, sending the men's wages home to their families, and introduced reading rooms to the hospital. In return she gained the undying respect of the British soldiers. The introduction of female nurses to the military hospitals was an outstanding success, and to show the nation's gratitude for Florence Nightingale's hard work a public subscription was organised in November 1855. The money collected was to enable Florence Nightingale to continue her reform of nursing in the civil hospitals of Britain. When Florence Nightingale returned from the Crimean War in August 1856, four months after the peace treaty was signed, she hid herself away from the public's attention. In November 1856 Miss Nightingale took a hotel room in London which became the centre for the campaign for a Royal Commission to investigate the health of the British Army. When Sidney Herbert was appointed chairman, she continued as a driving force behind the scenes. Quotes taken from http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/flo2.htm |
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Teresa
May 12th, 2008 - 12:34 PM |
Re: Florence Nightingale Birthday
Thanks for posting that Pink...I like a bit of History....where would our brave lads/ladies be without someone to nurse them better too 
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PinkAngel
May 12th, 2008 - 12:40 PM |
Re: Florence Nightingale Birthday
Me too , she was a pretty spectacular woman of our history really i reckon 
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angie
May 12th, 2008 - 7:37 PM |
Re: Florence Nightingale Birthday
When I was doing my nursing training I worked at a place in Poole, Dorset, which was called Nightingale House, where Florence Nightingale actually was for a time working during the Crimean War. When we were on night duty, in the part where the hall is (was used by staff or patients just for daytime meetings), used to be the mortuary, and we could footsteps at night across the hall. |
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PinkAngel
May 12th, 2008 - 7:40 PM |
Re: Florence Nightingale Birthday
Oooo spooky 
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Carol
 May 12th, 2008 - 9:10 PM |
Re: Florence Nightingale Birthday
 Oooooh dear!!!!
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