Facts About Florence Nightingale

Born on May 12, 1820 in Florence, Italy. At the age of 25, Florence told her parents that she wanted to be a nurse; they were opposed by this due to a women being in the working class.

Florence thrived to have a career in medicine. It all came together when she met the first quailfied women doctor named Elizabeth Blackwell St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. In 1851, Florence's father gave her permission to be a nurse.

Florence stuided at the Institute of Protestant Deaconesses in Kaiserwerth, Germany. The following years she became the head nurse at a hosptial Harley Street, London.

In 1853 Russia had invaded Turkey, Britian and France. Florence went to Turkeys side, where soilders where being infected with cholera and malaria. A total of 8, 000 men were infected.

In 1856, Florence travelled back to England. She then started a campaign in order to improve the quality of nursing. She was able to raise 59, 000 pounds and used the money to beginning the Nightingale School & Home for Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital. She also wrote two books in 1859 called Notes on Hospital and Notes on Nursing.

Sadly on August 10, 1910 Florence Nightingale's life ended after suffereing from poor health and going blind.


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