Why Is Florence Nightingale Important

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"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse"(Florence Nightingale). This quotation represents and describes how she lived and did her work plus her personality. Florence Nightingale created a way for the death rate by two-thirds, used thinking flexibly to innovate ways to over come mass death during the Crimean War and illuminated the world by changing nursing for the better!!

Florence Nightingale has done many important things in the world of nursing. If Florence was not alive, then nursing would become completely different & utterly horrible. "Florence Nightingale is the mother of all modern nursing"(Florence nightingale biography.(2015) http://www.biography.com/people/florence-nightingale-9423539 ). She is mostly known for what she did during the Crimean War (from 1853-1856). "During the Crimean War she and her team improved the conditions & reduced the death rate by two-thirds"(Florence nightingale(2015)http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/florence-nightingale).She also campaigned for the British
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when she went to Crimean war battle field and saw that every thing was a mess Florence and her team fixed it. "Nightingale insisted that wounded soldiers get fresh air, water, healthy food, and all sheets , bandages, et cetera were to be laundered each day"(Florence nightingale biography.(2015) http://www.biography.com/people/florence-nightingale-9423539 ). Because she did many good things the Queen rewarded her. "She had a hero's welcome; The Queen gave her a brooch that was called "Nightingale jewelry", and $250,000 from British Government"(Florence Nightingale(2015)http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/florence-nightingale). She effected others by having a campaign on the British Army health.(Florence Nightingale