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Florence Nightingale: Mother Of Modern Nursing
The founder of modern nursing of professional nursing, was born in Florence, Italy, on 1820, in an English family, she was named of the city of her birth.
In England in the middle of the nineteen century, nursing was not a decent job, because she has the passion Florence Nightingale moved to Germany.
Florence in 1854 with 38 nurses went to a military camp of British soldiers. Florence noticed that health status in these camps was devastating. Injured soldiers were left on the floor and the few doctors desperately were trying to manage patients with basic facilities, in dirty environment.
The Florence interventions were simple. She tried to provide a clean environment. She provided medical equipment, clean water and fruits (2). With this work the mortality rate decreased from 60% to 42% and then to 2.2%.
Florence was like mother for soldiers. She took the lamp every night and used to go to patients’ camp.
Florence in 1860 established nightingale nursing school as the first nursing school in the world. With the establishment of this school, she changed nursing to a respectful profession.
On 13 August 1910, at the age of 90, she died peacefully in her sleep in her room at 10 South Street, Mayfair, London.
Florence Nightingale never had a husband, she never married, because she believed it will distract her.
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