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Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari, Jerry Barrett, 1857.Eliza Roberts is portrayed kneeling tending a wounded soldier. Her health had sufficiently improved that on the outbreak of the Crimean War in the following year she volunteered to join Florence Nightingale's team of 38 nurses travelling out to tend the sick and wounded at Scutari Hospital, having ...
She was the daughter of surgeon Calvin Cutter. An 1861 graduate of Mount Holyoke College, [1] she helped her father in the 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as a nurse. [2] She was referred to as "the Florence Nightingale of the 21st."
Jane Catherine Shaw Stewart (22 September 1821 – 14 March 1905) was a leading British nurse in Crimea.At one point she was designated to take over from Florence Nightingale.
Opposed in the uppermost circles of British government because she is "merely" a woman, Florence Nightingale is championed by the Hon. Sidney Herbert (Michael Wilding), minister of war. Herbert pulls strings to allow Nightingale and her nursing staff access to battlefield hospitals, and in so doing changes the course of medical history. [3]
The director of the Florence Nightingale Museum has said fighting to reopen after the pandemic has been an “emotional roller-coaster”. The London museum celebrating the most famous figure in ...
The White Angel is a 1936 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Kay Francis, Ian Hunter and Donald Woods. [2] [3] The film depicts Florence Nightingale's pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A U.S. nurse who was released by kidnappers in Haiti last week says a Christian song called “See a Victory” became her battle cry after she and her young ...