Tony Neville
Command Sergeant Major
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Happy birthday Florence
to day 1820!!!
introduced welfare for the troops!
Born: May 12, 1820,
Florence, Italy
Died: August 13, 1910,
London, England
"To the spirit of Florence Nightingale, the patron saint of all nurses, please make one Cherry Ames watch her step and obey all the rules and regulations. For once!"
--From Cherry Ames,
At Spencer, p. 11
The famed Lady with the Lamp, British nurse Florence Nightingale was a hospital reformer and the pioneer of modern nursing.
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.
Tony
to day 1820!!!
introduced welfare for the troops!
Born: May 12, 1820,
Florence, Italy
Died: August 13, 1910,
London, England
"To the spirit of Florence Nightingale, the patron saint of all nurses, please make one Cherry Ames watch her step and obey all the rules and regulations. For once!"
--From Cherry Ames,
At Spencer, p. 11
The famed Lady with the Lamp, British nurse Florence Nightingale was a hospital reformer and the pioneer of modern nursing.
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.
Tony
