Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale Birthday: May 12, 1820 Died: August 13, 1910 Place of Birth: England Occupation: Nurse Florence Nightingale (FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE)

She was British and was born in Florence, Italy on May 12, 1820. Her parents named her after this city.

In 1910, she died in her sleep.

She was born into a well-known and wealthy family and was educated at home since she was a child.

Her father was a learned and cultured man who provided her with an education in classical books, mathematics, philosophy, and languages.

Her mother was dissatisfied with her because she had no intention of marriage.

She chose to be a nurse among the three options of being a housewife, a writer, and a nurse.

One day in 1837, Nightingale felt she heard the voice of God asking her to complete a mission.

Since she was a child, she has often taken care of the sick and disabled in nearby villages, and nursed her relatives to relieve the suffering of the sick.

Her parents objected to her becoming a nurse, believing it would be detrimental to the family's honor.

But feudal consciousness and social influence never made her lose confidence in nursing work.

In her day, no one with status worked as a nurse.

Nurses are often ignorant, rude, alcoholic, and untrained women.

She took advantage of the opportunity to travel to Europe to learn about nursing work in various places.

In the end, she chose the famous Cairnsworth Hospital and participated in a four-month short-term training course in the hospital in 1851, which finally made her dream of learning to become a nurse come true.

During her studies, she experienced firsthand that nursing work requires hard work in many aspects to relieve patients' pain and provide spiritual comfort.

In 1844, she set out from the United Kingdom to travel across the European continent. She traveled to France, Germany, Belgium, Italy and other countries, and inspected hospitals in various countries.

In 1850, despite her family's objections, she decided to go to Kaiserthwaite, Germany, to receive nursing training.

Her talent was discovered, and in 1853 she was employed as overseer of the London Society for the Care of Sick Women.

In 1853, she became director of the Women's Hospital in London.

The following year, the Crimean War broke out. She was invited by the government and took 38 suitable women with her. On October 21, 1854, she left London and set sail for Crimea.

In Crimea, Nightingale found her job difficult: Army leaders were suspicious of her work, hospital supplies were short, and nurses' discipline was poor.

Faced with various difficulties, she focused on rectifying rules and disciplines.

Thanks to support from all sides, hospital supplies improved; careful care saved the lives of many soldiers.

In order to express their gratitude to them, the soldiers stopped swearing and showed no rudeness.

In the quiet night, Nightingale inspected the ward with an oil lamp in hand, and the soldier lay on the bed and kissed her figure falling on the wall.

She also paid attention to whether the soldier's wounds were dressed and whether he was receiving proper food and drink.

She comforted the seriously ill and urged the soldiers to write letters home and send the remaining money home to support their families.

She herself sent hundreds of letters to the families of dead soldiers.

In a very short time, she became a legendary figure among the soldiers, and the whole of Britain became aware of the "Lady with the Lamp".

In just six months in Crimea, the mortality rate of soldiers dropped from 50% to 22%.

Nightingale contracted Crimean fever in the Crimea and returned to work before her health fully recovered.

In November 1856, she returned to England as the last evacuee.

After returning to England, she was extremely exhausted, but soon she resumed her work on military health for the Royal Commission of Inquiry.

Therefore, although funds for setting up a nursing school had been obtained from various sources in 1855, she was not able to start the work of setting up a nursing school immediately.

She believes that nursing schools must be integrated with hospitals.

Finally, she chose St. Thomas' Hospital in London as her school base. In 1869, Nightingale Nurse Training School opened.

Nightingale Nursing School opened with 15 women, aged between 25 and 35, and the training lasted one year.

Students' food, accommodation, uniforms, and tuition fees are all free, and a bursary of ￡10 is given each year.

The school was entrusted to the nursing director of St. Thomas' Hospital, and Nightingale visited the school only twice.

But she has been keeping a close eye on the school's developments.

The nursing director of the hospital constantly asked her for instructions and reported everything in the school.

Nurses and matrons often conducted interviews at Nightingale's home.

In 1860, Nightingale used the Nightingale Fund of 4,400 pounds donated by the public to create the world's first formal nursing school, the Nightingale Nursing School, at St. Thomas' Hospital in England.

Then the training of midwives and workhouse nurses began.

She made outstanding contributions to hospital management, military health care, nurse education and training, etc., and was hailed as the founder of modern nursing education by later generations.

She also proposed the idea of ??public health care and believed that preventive medicine services should be provided through community organizations.

She trained more than 1,000 nurses in her lifetime.

His major works "Hospital Notes" and "Nursing Notes" have become basic textbooks for hospital management and nurse education.

It promoted the development of nursing work and nurse education in Western European countries and even around the world.