Florence Nightingale, born on the 12th of May, 1820, in Italy, and named after her place of birth, was an English nurse, statistician and social reformer. She became renowned for her services during the Crimean War, where she managed a group of nurses and demonstrated key nursing methods in tending the wounded patients. Today, Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing.
Nightingale was from an upper-class, liberal Unitarian family. She was the younger of two siblings and had an older…
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