biography
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Nightingale, Florence
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known as the Lady of the Lamp
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1820–1910)
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| biography:
| Hospital reformer, born in Florence, NC Italy. Raised in England, she trained as a nurse at Kaiserswerth and Paris. During the Crimean War, after the Battle of Alma (1854), she led a party of 38 nurses to organize a nursing department at Scutari. There she found grossly inadequate sanitation, but soon established better conditions and had 10 000 wounded under her care. She returned to England in 1856, where she formed an institution for the training of nurses at St Thomas' Hospital, and spent several years on army sanitary reform, the improvement of nursing, and public health in India. |
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