Florence Nightingale was born in Italy then moved to London when she was a young girl, one day at her home in London she went to see one of her father’s workers who was ill and while she was their she suggested to his wife that she should take him to a hospital and she was shocked that Ms. Nightingale could suggest such a place because the hospitals they went to was a place of death and the conditions were not good.
14 years later Florence declined a marriage proposal and decided that she was going to work at a hospital in London and she wished for their blessing.
When she was working at the hospital she read the news paper and it talked about the horrible conditions …show more content…
So she and the nurses decided that they would have to do the best that they could with their situation.
After she had been there for a long time everyone loved her they called her the queen of the nurses, the soldiers friend and the angle of the trenches, the lady with the lamp, they were only some of her …show more content…
Admiring the leader
I admire Florence because she was an incredible woman who did something different that no one would have ever thought of doing in the time, I like her because she went to the war and proved that women where just as capable in the medical world as men and she even made some of the doctors look bad because she was better than them. I also like that even though she was sick so many were waiting for her recovery. Florence also had many names and that just show how much the people loved her.
5. * Florence was the first women to receive the order of merit. * She wrote several books on nursing, also she mentored the first US nurse. * In 1859 Florence had L45,000 at her disposal for her Nightingale fund to set up the nightingale training school at St. Thomas hospital. * Her birthday is now celebrated as a International CFS Awareness Day. * She also had a gift for mathematics * A man named Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a poem about Florence while she was in the Crimean war. * She was the most famous person after Queen Victoria in her