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Extract from The Times about Florence Nightingale " She is a 'ministering angel' without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds"
Another extract from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem ' Santa Filomena' " Lo! in that house of misery
A lady with a lamp I see
Pass through the glimmering gloom,
And flit from room to room."
As a child, Florence Nightingale was good in her studies and she was required to marry and be a good wife but she was interested in social issues. This made her want to be a nurse and her parents refused. It was during her trip in Europe that she realized her dreams by visiting hospitals and therefore she did three months of training and finally became a nurse. Florence Nightingale felt that god was sending a message to her. The message was to get a job that was not made fr a woman. This is when she had the iea to become a nurse...
Florence Nightingale is known as the first nurse, but to be a nurse was not so easy. During the nineteenth century, it was not normal for a woman to be a nurse. Nightingale’s parents did not want their daughter to be a nurse; they wanted her to stay at home and be a mother. Florence though, did not want to get married. Finally her father let her go to nursing school. She learned to be a nurse at the Institute of Protestant Deaconess. Eventually she became superintendent for a hospital for invalid women. In 1883, Queen Victoria awarded Florence Nightingale the Red Cross because of her great work and loyalty to her nursing career.
Florence Nightingale was born into a rich, upper class British family in 1820 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. She was named after the town where she was born. The family moved back to London when Florence was a young girl. She was a Unitarian .Although her parents expected her to become a wife and a mother, in 1845 she decided to become a nurse. While she was training she campaigned for better conditions for poor people in Britain.
In 1854 when the Crimean War began, Florence was working in Harley Street in London. After reading many reports about the poor treatment of sick and injured soldiers, she traveled to Crimea to see for herself and discovered the hospitals were crowded and dirty.
Due to soldiers falling in love with her, there is a syndrome named after her called "Florence Nightingale Syndrome." It occurs when a soldier falls in love with a nurse.
While she was working in Crimea she became known as “The Lady with the Lamp” because she would walk around the hospital in the evening carrying a lamp and check on the soldiers.
When she returned to England she started a school for nurses at St. Thomas’ hospital in London.
In 1907, Florence Nightingale became the first woman ever to be awarded the Order of Merit by King Edward VII. Nightingale died in 1910 in London. There are many statues of her in Britain, including one in Waterloo Place in London and a Florence Nightingale museum, also in London.